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Rory’s hand moved from my neck and hovered just at my face, not touching the tears that fell from beneath my shroud but guarding them against the breeze, as if they deserved their own tender pilgrimage down my cheeks.
“Years in the making—and over in a moment.”
But if the creature was a monster, it was because it was made that way.
“If you value your friend when he fights your battles for you—when he is rogue and ruthless—you must value him when he is gentle, too. Otherwise you do not value him at all.”
my heart could break for happiness, too.
Only love, only heartbreak, can weave the thread of all that came, and all that is yet to come.
People who love you for your usefulness don’t love you at all.”
“It’s hard to see who I am when I am lost in what’s expected of me.”
“When you do the right thing for the wrong reason, no one praises you. When you do the wrong thing for the right reason, everyone does, even though what is right and wrong depends entirely on the story you’re living in.
And no one says they need recognition or praise or love, but we all hunger for it.
Not everything had to hurt to be holy. Bad, to be good.
“I cannot decide which I like best. The sunrise, or the sunset. They are like life, and her quiet companion, death.”
But nothing was eternal, and I could never go back home.
