The Butterfly Garden  (The Collector, #1)
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Read between March 24 - March 26, 2023
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“My name is Cassidy Lawrence,” she whispered, so quietly I could barely hear it. “Please don’t forget me.
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I was good at escaping people, not manipulating them. This was new ground.
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Desmond wasn’t good, no matter how much he wanted to be, and better than his family just wasn’t enough. Every day he helped keep us here, he hurt me.
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Desmond was still his father’s son, though. Whenever I tried to walk him to the door, he’d politely but firmly send me away so I couldn’t see him put in his code. “It would destroy my mother,” he said when I finally mentioned it. Taking direct action against his father would be complicated, I got that, but why not give us the chance to rescue ourselves? “My family’s name, our reputation, our company . . . I can’t be the one to destroy that.” Because a name means more than a life. Than all our lives.
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Other people got to look at a birthday and say, “Yay! One year older!” We met our birthdays with “Fuck. One year less.”
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“To Zara,” she said quietly, “because when she dies, Felicity Farrington will finally rest in peace.”
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You allowed this to happen, Desmond, actively allowed it, so yes, you are the one who hurt her.
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How could a child be worth less than a name? How could all our lives be worth less than a reputation?
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And still, in the face of this twelve-year-old girl, he was deluding himself.
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none of them use their original names. It’s still the names from the Garden on their tongues, on their minds, and he can see the parents cringe every time.
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Victor clears his throat. “The carousel’s over now,” he tells her quietly. “This time your family is waiting for you.”
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“Thank you, Samira Grantaire. Thank you for telling us the truth. Thank you for taking care of those girls. Thank you for being so incredibly brave.”