"Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing de...

Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.
~ Cassandra Clare ~











Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your br...
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