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21 " I believed in the spirits that lived in everything around me: the water, the birds, the air itself. It was all alive and beautiful and just as divine as any invisible god. "
― Mara Rutherford , Crown of Coral and Pearl (Crown of Coral and Pearl, #1)
22 " What lies beneath the surface of shallow waters? Nothing. It’s only when you go deeper that the ocean comes alive. The deeper you go, the more mysteries and surprises await. "
23 " She was like a beautiful house built on stilts, only the stilts were lies, and accepting the truth meant destroying the foundation of her existence. Accepting this new outcome would mean admitting that life could, in fact, go on. "
24 " Hiding our scars doesn’t mean they’re not there. Just as beauty cannot disguise who we really are beneath the surface. "
25 " He closed the space between us, cutting me off with his lips and stealing my thoughts along with my words. "
26 " I’ve been wanting to do that for ages,” he murmured against my skin. “It’s like a tiny star, marking you as something special for anyone too senseless not to know it. "