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Pity, I knew, was just disrespect wrapped in kindness.
“You are convenient, but you are not necessary.
“I didn’t choose the blood that runs in my veins,” I replied. “Any more than you chose your fate. You and I, we’ve become what we were made to become.”
“All people are violent. Some resist the impulse, and some don’t.
“Have you ever even cared about someone enough to hate the person who took them from you, Cyra?”
“Find another reason to go on,” I said. “It doesn’t have to be a good one, or a noble one. It just has to be a reason.”
And when I finally named it, I found it was something very simple: the desire to live.
“Every currentgift carries a curse,” he said. “But no gift is only a curse.” “The gift part of it is that no one can hurt me,” I said.
It wasn’t possible to lose a friend like her without knowing, was it?
“You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well.”
