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Men prone to violence were generally thoughtless, acting with emotion first and applying reason after.
Her mind did not care whether the fear made sense; it just wanted to never go back.
“Because you thought they’d accept what you are if you only reduced yourself enough.”
Things that seem too good to be true usually have a price you don’t know about until it’s too late.”
He wasn’t kind; he simply wasn’t cruel. He wasn’t as monstrous as he could be. And for Helena’s fracturing mind, an absence of cruelty was sufficient solace. For her starved heart, it was enough.
She couldn’t fix herself anymore, and no one else seemed inclined to even notice she was breaking.
“You made me feel like the parts of me that aren’t useful still deserve to exist. Like I’m not just all the things I can do.”
Women were always defined by the lowliest thing they could be called.
