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That girl has more cracks in her than the road of yellow brick.
But I don’t know if our boy is capable of love. He wasn’t built for it. We didn’t build him for it.”
“All that mind reading, and you still can’t see inside the heart. Our boy is starved for it, too. He just doesn’t know it yet.”
a human Swiss Army knife,
If it has claws and teeth and it drools, it probably answers to the Lion.”
I couldn’t go back to bed. I couldn’t leave. So I just stood there, trying to will the memories out of my head. I didn’t want to think either. But thinking was the only thing I could do.
In that moment, I owed her the dignity of an unwavering gaze. It was the least I could do.
What kind of person is so hard on the inside that she cries diamonds?
I remembered that things were never easy around here. Good and evil were always changing places with each other.
I was out of pity. She would have to choose her own fate, just like the rest of us.
“That will never happen again,”
“But it would be too bad if it didn’t happen once,”
Wogglebug
“Those who have sacrificed always have the most to lose,”
To survive in Dorothy’s Oz, a person had to have their secrets.
casual cruelty,
to feel like a powerless coward hidden under a borrowed face.
her eyes squeezed shut in pain. I couldn’t tell if it was physical or mental. Did it hurt to think? Or did it hurt to remember what had been done to her?
The least I could do was be as brave as she was.
I shuddered. Doing Good had been uglier than I’d expected it to be. And the price . . . the price now was feeling like I needed to always be looking over my shoulder.
It seemed like the kind of place you could get lost in. The kind of place you could enter and never leave.
There was no point in looking back, so I didn’t bother.
More half answers. This was way beyond its expiration date.
You reminded me that there was still Good here. Even if it was just the promise of Good.”
With all the magic in Oz, with all the magic the witches had taught me, there was one trick I still hadn’t mastered: how to make people stay.
making me beg and humiliate myself while she tortured me with my own fear.
“I’m just a chess piece for you people to move around,”
“Being sorry doesn’t change anything,”
“All it does
