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Oh, but history moved in such vicious circles.
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R.F. Kuang (The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3))
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I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom Iβd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts βto be like the restβ βand suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, Iβd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again β in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.
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Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.
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V.E. Schwab (Vicious (Villains, #1))
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I already unleashed Baghra on Nikolai. He's going to think I stockpile vicious old women.
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Leigh Bardugo (Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #3))
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Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.
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Victoria Schwab (Vicious (Villains, #1))
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I want to believe that there's more. That we could be more. Hell, we could be heroes.
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Victoria Schwab (Vicious (Villains, #1))
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Dragon relationships are absolutely incomprehensible.β
βYeah? You should try a human one sometime. Just as vicious, but less fire.
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Rebecca Yarros (Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1))
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The past hundred years have been most unfair to Cixi, who has been deemed either tyrannical and vicious or hopelessly incompetent or both.
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Jung Chang (Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China)
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History is full of different people making the same mistakes over and over again, never learning from the actions of those who came before them. Time can sometimes prove to be a vicious circle in that regard. People in power attempting to tell others how they should live their lives, but only in the bounds of what they consider acceptable. Gatekeepers who believe it is up to them to decide what is morally correct or not.
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T.J. Klune (Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2))
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People had considered this the most fearsome creature on the planet. The most vicious. The most predatory. Without any rivals. It could beat anything in the ocean, so, therefore, it qualified as the most feared of all beasts. Totally wrong. So I guess Moby Doll changed the worldβs attitudes towards killer whales. Instead of seeing a killerβa savage monster like Moby Dickβthe world met a cuddly companion, Moby Doll.
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Mark Leiren-Young (The Killer Whale Who Changed the World)
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Even the separation of art from craft is largely a post-Renaissance concept, and more recent still is the notion that art transcends what you do, and represents what you are. In the past few centuries Western art has moved from unsigned tableaus of orthodox religious scenes to one-person displays of personal cosmologies. βArtistβ has gradually become a form of identity which (as every artist knows) often carries with it as many drawbacks as benefits. Consider that if artist equals self, then when (inevitably) you make flawed art, you are a flawed person, and when (worse yet) you make no art, you are no person at all! It seems far healthier to sidestep that vicious spiral by accepting many paths to successful artmaking β from reclusive to flamboyant, intuitive to intellectual, folk art to fine art. One of those paths is yours.
David Bayles. Art & Fear- Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (pp. 12-13). (Function). Kindle Edition.
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David Bayles (Art and Fear)
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Even the separation of art from craft is largely a post-Renaissance concept, and more recent still is the notion that art transcends what you do, and represents what you are. In the past few centuries Western art has moved from unsigned tableaus of orthodox religious scenes to one-person displays of personal cosmologies. βArtistβ has gradually become a form of identity which (as every artist knows) often carries with it as many drawbacks as benefits. Consider that if artist equals self, then when (inevitably) you make flawed art, you are a flawed person, and when (worse yet) you make no art, you are no person at all! It seems far healthier to sidestep that vicious spiral by accepting many paths to successful artmaking β from reclusive to flamboyant, intuitive to intellectual, folk art to fine art. One of those paths is yours.
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David Bayles (Art and Fear)
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I will forever care for you.
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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I will forever treasure you,
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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I will forever provide for you.
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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a Raven and a human dancing beneath stars that no war could ever extinguish.
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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I will forever fly with you.
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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I will forever protect our young.
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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Are you running from me again?
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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Why go through such exertion?
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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Even at a walk, I seemed to have landed myself in your arms, just like you said.
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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How I spend⦠way too many hours watching you, annoyingly fixated beyond sense or reason?
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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How else could I reconcile how I kissed you, hmm? How my body longs for yours? How I brought you pleasure with my mouth on your cunt? How I spend⦠way too many hours watching you, annoyingly fixated beyond sense or reason?
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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How far would I go to find out? To feel loved? Would I bruise for it? Hurt for it? Bleed for it? Yes.
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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the way you whimper and moan will make fate itself blush.
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))
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Because it felt like love. Terrible, star-crossed, painful love.
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Liv Zander (Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1))