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“You can still fight with fear in your heart.”
“I love her,” I tell Grim softly, seriously. “I don’t own her. You don’t hold back someone like Lennix because the beauty is in how she flies. I want to see her soar. I just want to make sure she always lands safely. You know?”
“At some point, they’ll reconcile. They’ll need each other. Don’t make Maxim choose between you and my father. He would choose you, but he’ll need Dad, too.”
Foreshadowing
“I kept thinking we wasted so much time not being together, but maybe we needed that time. We were really young.” Her words, the look on her face is wistful. “We wanted to change the world.”
she is the first time I’ve tasted enough, and I savor it on my tongue, hoard it. Fold it into my hands to memorize the feel of complete satisfaction. An entire kingdom fits in this boat. My whole world rests against my heart.
The idea is that the smoke attaches to the negative things in our lives, in our bodies, in ourselves, and draws them out. They float away with the smoke.
“You know what I mean.” I laugh. “He’s better off staying out.” I don’t add, of course, that Maxim in politics sounds like a nightmare for our personal life.
More Foreshadowing?
Owen is gone, and so is she. We’re standing in one of life’s awful moments where your breath is a comma, marking the space before and after tragedy, punctuating that nothing will ever be the same.
I can’t find my bearings in a world where my brother doesn’t exist. I’ve never been here before.
“She said revolution requires a certain degree of hubris. I have hubris to spare. Whether you know it or not, we need a revolution. We need to shake things up. The status quo is insufficient for what lies ahead. Let’s not fear the future. Let’s make it.”
‘They buried us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.’
You don’t stop running because it’s hard. You don’t stop running because it hurts. Don’t you dare stop running because someone says you’ll never finish the race or even that it’s not your race to run.
