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“Whether it be the untrammeled nobility of man’s true nature made manifest or a base and craven instinct to appease remains to be determined.
“A gentle heart is a virtue to be praised in a young girl, but in matters of survival, cold reason must prevail over sympathies.
Maybe it is true it does not matter, it is only a word. But there is magic in words. There is magic in knowing.
I think how Master put his lips on her while she sleeps, and I think that he loves her, but I think maybe she is not the thing he loves best of all. I think maybe Master loves his anger more. And I think about the way Master looks at her today, and speaks of things to come.
Tis the fine edge of a blade that divides innocence from ignorance, and methinks it a blade that will turn in thy hand and cut thee one day.”
it is the fine edge of a blade that divides innocence from ignorance.
running with nowhere to go from a knowing I cannot run away from,
Why, I wonder, is one thing gauged noble and beautiful and another hideous and unlovely when it is all part of God’s creation?
love is not always kind.
There is kindness in my cruelty, he said, and cruelty in thy kindness.
Papa, I think, does not like to be wrong. I do not think he understands how a world can exist in which he is wrong and I am right.
When in my life have my wishes ever mattered?
