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"Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete."
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"What did you think about?' I wish I could tell him that I thought about him, but I lied to him once and I won't do it again. And besides, I wasn't thinking about Xander either. 'I thought about angels,' I say.'Angels?'You know. The ones in the old stories. How they can fly to heaven.' 'Do you think anyone believes in them anymore?' He asks.'I don't know. No. Do you?'I believe in you,' he says, his voice hushed and almost reverent. 'That's more faith than I ever thought I'd have."
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"What are the gifts given to we who live Below?'Long life, health, strength, and happiness.'What is the curse of those who live Above?'Short life, illness, weakness, and misery.'Is this fair?'It is fair. It is as the gods decreed at the time of the Divide. Some have to stay Above so that humanity might survive Below.'Then give thanks."
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