as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, th…

Anne Rice
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as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow. ✨ Anne Rice (2013). The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos, p.176, Ballantine Books
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