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1 " It was the most beautiful and horrible thing I’d ever seen, watching her become all that she was meant to be. "
― Gwendolyn Kiste , The Rust Maidens
2 " But sometimes, speaking it aloud is the only way we remember what’s true. "
― Gwendolyn Kiste , Pretty Marys All in a Row
3 " I’ve found the best things are the ones you keep to yourself. The little truths about the world that everyone else thinks are crazy. "
― Gwendolyn Kiste , And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe
4 " Sometimes the only satisfying answer, the only one that would make you stop wondering, was the only one you never wanted to come. "
5 " The houses were there, of course, just like they should be. But the draped windows stared out at me, drowsing eyes that never rested, and a scent of rotten earth and restlessness breezed through the neighborhood. "
6 " He’s almost sixty, practically an old man, his eyes crinkled at the edges and his hair faded to gray. Yet nothing about him feels old to me. He feels exactly the same. I shouldn’t still want him. After all these years and all these mistakes and all these regrets, this shouldn’t be happening. A grown woman acting the same as some swoony girl who can’t get over a crush. I feel like I should be better than this, but apparently, I’m not. "
7 " Some evenings, he describes the waking world beyond here. It almost makes me grateful I’m dead. "
8 " We’re on the wrong side of night,” Red murmurs inside the mirror, and she’s right. "
9 " I’m a woman with almost half a century of life experience, who still can’t do a convincing impression of a human being. "
