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21 " There was something terribly stark in the way she said it, an acknowledgment of the hopelessness of the vampires’ love for the demi-angels, and at the same time a resolute dignity that rejected pity. "
― Sarah Monette , Somewhere Beneath Those Waves
22 " Tonight she understood what the song was trying to say, that the truth was still beautiful, even if it came out of something painful and ugly and heart-breaking. "
23 " Its voice was the voice of clockwork mechanism, full of rust and oil, dust and dead spiders and fragments of macerated time. "
24 " His poetry was a bouquet of dead, rotting roses, a sickness, a canker, a stupid, self-indulgent delusion. "
25 " The first time he had seen her, the first time he had looked into her eyes, he had thought he saw his Stag of Candles reflected there. He had been trying to find that reflection again ever since, but all he ever saw was himself. "
26 " She pours a libation-not to the dragon, for the dragon is destruction and death and needs no homage-but to the Earth who heals herself if given half a chance, and then proceeds to get royally hammered. "