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Necessitas Non Habet Legem Necessity Has No Law
Also, I’m fucking starving all the time so I’m hardly picky.
How am I supposed to prove I’m a decent person when I feel ready to snap at any moment?
You can capture a man. Torture him. Maim him. Kill him, even. But when the violence is over, the pain stops. But if you kill the only thing he loves . . . That pain is unending.
The wolf hunts with the pack. That’s what I was taught. The fundamental law of my family: alone we’re weak, together strong.
“Women are always more than they seem.”
Because of course I’m not exactly like him. One person can never be just like another.”
“But no river is the same, and no body of water.”
The bonds of family can be chains weighing you down.
“I didn’t think you were gonna come back from those stones,” I tell Nix. She shakes her head, surprised at herself. “It took me six tries,” she admits. “I almost gave up.” “Why didn’t you?” I ask her. “Because,” she says as if it’s obvious. “I never give up.”
“No rest for the wicked,”
“This school is a fucking fishbowl. Everybody watching, everybody talking.”
Do I really seem so different to my cousins, my sister, my own parents? Do they think I’m not one of them anymore?
Home is the people you love, not a building, not a place. I want to go home with you, Rafe.”
Fides Est In Sanguinem Loyalty In Blood
“That’s right,” I nod. “The truth is always the best story.”
“Our fathers shape us,” Sloane said, zipping her case. “But it’s our husbands who determine what we truly become. And us them. A couple is the sum of both of you together—as strong as you are together. As happy as you are together.”
There are crossroads in life where you can either choose the cold truth you see in front of you, or you can choose to chase the impossible dream. It’s only by believing in that dream, and pursuing it, that you can turn it into a living, breathing reality. You must chase the dream to live the dream. Otherwise, it will only ever be an ephemeral fantasy in your mind.
