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“That’s why literature is so fascinating. It’s always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It’s never the same thing twice.”
tired of getting nothing but unreadable emotions from him. Tired of waiting on him. Tired of him.
He’s just letting us pretend that he’s going to fulfill his end while Dendera and Alysson and Finn and everyone stares at me like I’m some doll they’re playing with.
who says nothing because that’s what he does, he just stands there while I’m supposed to close my eyes and obey.
Noam does too.
he suggested it because he’s our king, because he’s tired of our lives being like this, because he saw a way to end it all.
studying me in a way that doesn’t feel possessive or condescending. It feels equal.
Fear is a seed that, once planted, never stops growing.
but I am not weak.
“Just in case no one who remembers survives.”
Someday we will be more than words in the dark.
is a truer mark of belonging somewhere—being willing to do anything, everything, that needs to be done, regardless of what I want.
Like I’m never truly whole without it.
He is an anchor too. Something to hold on to when all other things drag me down.
It doesn’t matter who I am now, queen or not, because Sir’s here. Sir’s alive. And he’ll be able to help me through this.
Like he sees me, truly sees me,
Like he sees all the sacrifices he’s made and doesn’t regret a single one.
We need to fix something, work through it with our bare hands and feel the life flow back into our veins. To do something true and brilliant and right.
but who I am isn’t as simple as just anything.
