"At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty"

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Source : Cate Tiernan (2007). “Awakening: Book Five”, p.116, Penguin

Cate Tiernan

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