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Because when you’re tabulating the entire worth of your life, a cheery decoration or an expensive bauble is more valuable than a bushel of half-rotted black-market apples.
there’s nothing quite so principled behind it. I’m just afraid. I’m afraid all the time.
People just get stuck. Sometimes you don’t even realize that you’re drowning until the water closes over your head.”
They’re just surviving. Even the Wends are just surviving. Who knows what they would do, if they had another choice? If they knew they were safe? If they were free?”
She grows like ivy on the insides of my eyelids. The roots of her are in my rib cage, winding up around my heart.
You can hate the person who imprisons you, but you can’t hate the person who sets you free. So what do you do when they’re one and the same? The love is what Azrael—and Caerus—can’t afford to lose. And maybe that makes love the most powerful force in the world, after all.
