De Montaigne described marriage as much like a cage full of birds, where the unmarried struggle to get in and the married struggle to get out.
Fiona Paul“The Black Death announces
itself by the appearance of foul,
egg-sized swellings that erupt
on the bodies of its victims,
followed by spreading boils
and hideous discolorations of the skin.
So excruciating is the pain
that death, when it comes, is a mercy.”
-THE BOOK OF THE ETERNAL ROSE
From death we gain knowledge of life, and from this knowledge we may one day vanquish death."
-The Book of The Eternal Rose
After death, the body cools, then stiffens, then grows limber again as putrefaction begins to dissolve the tissues until the flesh becomes foul, black slime."
-The Book of The Eternal Rose
The heart is divided into four chambers, two to a side. When one side fails, the other must follow, and the body dies."
-The Book of The Eternal Rose
The human body is a book of secrets, covered in skin and written in blood. Those who which to learn its mysteries must be unafraid to open it and study its entrails."
-The Book of The Eternal Rose
Cass sighed. She set the letter aside too. She'd never be able to send it anyway. Falco was gone. She might never see him again. Cass dipped her quill into the ink and touched it to her first page of the journal. She wrote:
You may study the bodies of the living and the dead for clues about the mechanism of the muscles, the bones, and even the brain, but you can never unravel the mystery of the human heart...
Falco wagged her journal in front of her. "This is yours, I presume." A slow smile spread across his face. "Let's find out exactly what you've been doing, shall we?"
"Give it back!" Cass reached for the journal, but Falco easily dodged her. He opened the leather-bound book to a random page and cleared his throat. Clutching a hand to his chest, he pretended to read aloud in a high-pitched voice. "Oh, how I love the way his fingers explore my soft flesh. The way his eyes see into my very soul."
This time, Cass managed to snatch the book out of his hands. "That is not what it says."
"I guess that means you won't be keeping me warm tonight?
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