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1 " Glitterdust across a broad expanse of blue. Before me, the water unfurled like dark swaths of shadowed silk, colors muted, reflections cast by the lamps hanging from the prows of the gondolas rippling, and my heart swelled at the beauty and the romance of it. "
― Megan Chance , Inamorata
2 " Yes, she was his angel. But can’t you guess, my love? She was his demon too. "
3 " I cannot explain how it begins, or why it happens, what strange alchemy puts such things in motion. "
4 " Omnia Mundi Fumus et Umbra "
5 " Is it optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure? "
6 " Strange, don’t you think, that nuns and monks make the most sensual food and drink? "
7 " Joseph and I arrived at Edward’s "
8 " I leaned my head back, and waited for the sunrise. "
9 " In the end, for me, there was only this: desire and addiction and hunger, a craving that made the world look hard-edged and brutally lovely. "
10 " understand what part they played. Symmetry. And because I understood that, I understood that a single painting or composition or poem might change the future. Where its influence might end—if it ever did—was a mystery. I had spent lifetimes watching the effects of my choices, and so I knew that Joseph Hannigan was meant to be the very best of them. The world had put him into my hands; I could only guess at its design. But I knew he "
11 " Omnia Mundi Fumus et Umbra All in the World is Smoke and Shadow –Latin motto "
12 " every melody and harmony felt part of some vast universe that belonged not just to man, but to every other creature—worldly and otherworldly. "
13 " It wasn’t just her words, it was her way of putting them together, the voice that seemed to gain power with each one, so that my head had been filled with images so magically vibrant it was as if I had seen them with my own eyes. She changed the world into something fine. She made one believe. "
14 " The two of you made something so beautiful it changed the way I saw it. I’ll never think of those places the same way again. "
15 " Then I saw it. Little pins of light that grew larger as I watched, a city that seemed to bloom from the darkness, spreading and spreading so that I couldn’t tell what was real and what was only reflection. "
16 " music told me that whatever else had been taken from me, my soul remained. "
17 " We do not stay as we were born, none of us.” I poured a glass of wine. “We are all made. And this—what I am—was nothing but one more choice in a sea of choices. "
18 " There is no meaning. Only balance. Only symmetry. "
19 " She was Venice personified, with her immortal agelessness and her beautiful, mysterious eyes that promised deliverance and salvation, her mouth that had spoken a hundred promises. All of them lies. "
20 " Some memories fade to tender nostalgia, and some fade altogether, "
