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He'd fallen in love slowly and quietly, and it was a quiet sort of love, full of phrases left unsaid, laced with dreams.

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia Gods of Jade and Shadow (2019)

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People love to classify things as black and white, good or bad, but I’ve seldom met any one who can be neatly defined and classified…

It’s never as fun seeing the monster as much as imagining.

I am partial to quiet, slow, psychologically intricate work.

Noemí’s father said she cared too much about her looks and parties to take school seriously, as if a woman could not do two things at once.

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Mortals have always been frightened of the night's velvet embrace and the creatures that walk in it, and yet they find themselves mesmerized by it.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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