“The realization wasn't crushing. It was gentle, like a final tendril of smoke from a dying candle.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Hero of Ages
“Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.”
— Richard Yates, book Cold Spring Harbor
Source: Cold Spring Harbor
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