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November 27 - December 7, 2024
“You are no captive, even if you agree to this. If you are to trust one thing about me, let it be that I will never make you do something against your will.” “You married me against my will.” “I was not aware of your objections.” “Would it have mattered?” “It would have changed everything.”
“Just because this is all you have ever known, it does not mean it is all you will ever be.”
“You can inherit someone’s eyes, or their hair or their nose, but you cannot inherit their faults. You learn them. Which means you can unlearn them, too.”
“Your father underestimated the weapon he built. And through his cruelty, he forced you to play for yourself and yourself alone. But I will play for you, if you will play for me, too.”
“I have learned that home is seldom a place; it is people, the most unexpected of them, that give us roots.”
“I think anyone in this position would need guidance…” He paused and looked to Vaasa for a moment, and then the corner of his mouth flicked up. “No man walks out of the position the same as he walked into it. To be the leader of anything can be a corrupting job.”
“Dismissing your emotions doesn’t make them disappear, it only gives them reason to rise later without your consent.”
“I am the great-granddaughter of one of the most powerful Veragi witches known to this world, and she made her home in Mireh.” Ton’s eyes went wide. “I did not abandon my country,” Vaasa said. “I came home.”
“Tell me that isn’t the truth. Tell me you haven’t already discovered there is nothing I won’t do or give for you.”
You have grown my capacity for hope. Had he meant more with those words than she’d let herself believe? Had it been her he hoped for, not just a nation or a title?
“I have collected a thousand words, and yet I cannot find a single one to tell you what comes alive inside of me when you are near.”
“Remind me who I am. Where I am. Because I think you are the only one who really knows.”
“You are my wife, and everything begins and ends with that.”
“I love you. That will never be untrue.”
“She is my wife,” Reid finally said. “And we will find her.” “I am in love with her.” His mother sighed softly, leaning back against the iron railing. “I know.” “She’s going to leave anyway.” “I know.”
“And tell Reid… that I would have stayed.”
