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81 " Tomorrow can be whatever I want it to be, which means for the first time in decades, I can look forward to it. Instead of being something to fear, it can be a promise I make myself. A chance to be braver or kinder, to make what was wrong right. To be better than I am today. Every day after this one is a gift. "
― Stuart Turton
82 " Courage isn't an absence of fear', cried out Sara. 'It's the light we find when fear is all there is. You're needed now, so find your courage "
― Stuart Turton , The Devil and the Dark Water
83 " His proposal had been thorough, listing the benefits of their union to her father. In short, she’d have a beautiful cage and all the time in the world to admire herself in the bars. "
84 " Life doesn’t always leave you a choice in how you live it, "
― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
85 " Murder in the morning and costumes at night, cryptic notes and burned butlers; whatever’s happening here, I will not be yanked around like some puppet on a string. I must escape this house. "
86 " It was impossible to set fire to the blight that had ruined your crops, but a blight was easily summoned by a witch, at which point any poor woman would do. "
87 " Daniel?” I ask, just about holding onto the back of the conversation as it streaks away from me. "
88 " You're a soul stripped bare . . . No regrets, no wounds, none of the lies we tell ourselves so we can look in the mirror each morning. "
89 " I'm not the man I'd hoped to be. "
90 " What does a child who has everything want?"More, just like everybody else. "
91 " How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?Pity's a fog to become lost within.I'm any face in a crowd; just the Lord's way of filling in the gaps.Thankfully, the leaves and twigs are so demoralized by the earlier rain they don't have the heart to cry out beneath my feet. "
92 " Why play these games?""Because eternity is dull. "
93 " Too tired to hold on, I slip back into the dark. "
94 " I’m caught between the devil and the deep, blue sea, aren’t I? "
95 " Uncertainty is a crack through the center of him, undermining any suggestion of solidity or strength. This man's been broken in two and put back together crooked, and if I had to guess, I'd say there was a child-shaped hole right in the middle. "
96 " God no, terrible things, hospitals,” he says, aghast. “Sickness and death swept into corners, diseases curled up in the beds with the patients. "
97 " Some songs weren’t mere songs. They were memories curled tight and set alight. "
98 " Avoiding unpleasant acts doesn’t make a man good. Look at where we are, what’s been done to us. Escaping this place requires that we do what is necessary, even if our nature compels us otherwise..... so don’t measure me by how tightly I cling to my goodness, measure me by what I’m willing to sacrifice that you might cling to yours. "
99 " She doesn’t take kindly to young men who think too much. She believes it’s a sign of idleness. "
100 " And you know, amid all this brocade, it doesn't even have pockets. Not one." She tugged at the material where the pockets should have been. "