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In a
few hours, she’ll see Anna for herself. She’ll see
her dressed in blood, her hair floating like it’s
suspended in water, eyes black and shining. And
when she does, she won’t be able to catch her
breath.


Kendare Blake

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WILLIAM BLAKE You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral ...
WILLIAM BLAKE The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
WILLIAM BLAKE Every harlot was a virgin once.
WILLIAM BLAKE What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful conseq...
WILLIAM BLAKE Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn...
WILLIAM BLAKE The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE Opposition is true friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen...
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for...
WILLIAM BLAKE To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowled...
WILLIAM BLAKE All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows...
WILLIAM BLAKE To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
WILLIAM BLAKE Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
WILLIAM BLAKE Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas...
WILLIAM BLAKE If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. Eubie Blake At Age 10...
EUBIE BLAKE Energy is eternal delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE Expect poison from standing water.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies li...
WILLIAM BLAKE The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
WILLIAM BLAKE He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
WILLIAM BLAKE Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Chr...
WILLIAM BLAKE Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
WILLIAM BLAKE Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
WILLIAM BLAKE Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
WILLIAM BLAKE This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to be...
WILLIAM BLAKE To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am...
WILLIAM BLAKE What is now proved was only once imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of...
WILLIAM BLAKE My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, l...
WILLIAM BLAKE When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
WILLIAM BLAKE I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy...
WILLIAM BLAKE