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“Your mother has her reasons for everything she does. Sometimes we don’t get to know them,” Aoseh said, a little calmer now. “But we have to trust her, even when it’s difficult.”
We knew how to hold the beauty of old things against the beauty of the new, losing nothing from either.
well, we’re all afraid.” I sighed. “The angry more than most, I think.”
I marveled at how opposite we were—and how similar that made us, both our lives
“No,” I snapped. “It’s not an insult,” Zosita said, a little more gently. “Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.”
she got something right at last. A kind of pride, he thought, in doing something useful. It was a good look for her.
More than just a sweet person with a good disposition, as if anyone was just that.
She was not a rusty nail, as she had once told him, or a hot poker, or a blade in Ryzek’s hand. She was a hushflower, all power and possibility. Capable of doing good and harm in equal measure.
I didn’t mind showing skin. I was far from frail, with thick thighs and a small chest, and it didn’t concern me. This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to. Still,
had no fragile illusions about my goodness, destined to shatter when he found out the truth. But he accepted me anyway. Cared about me anyway.
“You don’t really ever know if it’s you they want to be around, or your gift.” “The gift comes from me,” Cisi said. “It’s an expression of my personality. So I guess I don’t see a difference.”
wanted you to know that your friendship has . . . quite literally altered me.”
He didn’t want to shock her, or disappoint her, or be anything other than what she expected, only he didn’t know what that was.
That was the thing about knowing something in your blood instead of your brain, he supposed. It was just there.
You are what you need to be. Regardless, I love the person you were, the one you are, the one you will become. Understand?”
“I couldn’t very well free myself from my own nightmares by bringing Akos’s to life,”
because so much of her life had been hard, she was steadier than other people when hard things came.
What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.
