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Or perhaps that was merely Helena’s vanity distorting her assessments—needing her captor to be cunning, because how pathetic was she, as his prisoner, if he was not?
Women were always defined by the lowliest thing they could be called.
“He looks like your wife, doesn’t he? It’s the eyes and mouth; they’re so much like hers. He’s all you have left of her now. But every time he sees you, he hates you with your wife’s eyes.”
You loved her right into her grave.”
“There’s nothing to rival war for money.”
“I’m sure there will be good days and bad days for us. Too much has happened to ever really put it behind us, but if you choose me, and I choose you, I think we’re strong enough to make it.”
She wanted those lost remembered, and she wanted the tragedy of the war confronted, not buried, so that it could not happen again.
