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“It is only the past. No more than many have endured.” “And yet so much more than you deserved.”
“You think yourself a tool, needed only when useful. You are wrong.”
“He is his own person. You should not be responsible for his behavior.”
“No. I think you are too much a coward to ever risk learning the truth. Easier to die for a delusion.”
Who I had been died alongside my parents, and I was born again in that funereal house with Aunt Daphne.
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“Who taught you not to dream?”
“Disappointment tells us what we truly wanted. And to want is to be alive.”
But I am not her. I am soft and bruised where life has landed its blows upon me.
“I see you. I see everything in you that you will not admit, and I want more for you.”
“Oh, little Lenore. It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”
