Book: Golden Wolves

A broken heart makes an excellent weapon because its shards are especially sharp.

He didn't want to grieve. He wanted revenge.

Severin was surrounded by gilded wolves. And for some reason, in their company, he felt at home. Wolves were everywhere: in politics, on thrones, in beds. They tore history with sharp fangs and grew fat from endless wars. But Severin did not complain. This is how the world was arranged; like other wolves, he wanted his share of the booty.

It is unlikely that in this city it was possible to talk about some kind of blessing. Paris would rip the wings of a seraphim and decorate buildings with them, just to declare that angels have no place here.

“Please don’t tell us that it is time for us to make bloody sacrifices to Satan. It's not even Wednesday today.

She was Layla. A girl who created herself.

Perhaps A and O represent alpha and omega. Incidentally, these are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, symbolizing that God is both the beginning and the end.

A palindrome in Greek was found in the Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople. Nipson anomēmata mē monan opsin. "Cleanse yourself from sins, not just dirt." The pun was believed to confuse the demons.

- Honeycomb is a perfect hexagonal prism. My father called bees natural mathematicians.

After all, there was some truth in every superstition.

That night, she felt an attraction, comparable only to the force that prevents the stars from falling from the night sky.

She was a heartless seductress who danced only because the sound of the breaking heart of another poor fellow was dearer to her than the ringing of coins.

- So good that no one pays attention to cold hands.

“The word“ kill ”can be applied not only to animate objects. Take, for example, the expression "kill time". Perhaps the women you are talking about are ready to kill their standards and expectations?