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“Hearts only last when you put in work to make them last,” she responded. She was, however, more forgiving of Daisy than Lilac was. “She can’t help herself,” Rose said. “Sometimes you can’t help who you love or for how long.”
“There are many things they leave out of books. And learning about them in stories and learning through experience are two different things—and
The city rich are not like bees in a hive that work together to share honey for all. The city rich are like the jungle apes; they show off their red bottoms and beat their chests because they fear to be culled from the herd if they show weakness.
If women are encouraged to fight and draw runes and strive to be a man’s equal in those regard, then why can’t a man be encouraged to sing and dance and entertain as we do?”
“Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are rather than in what they expect you to be.”
Hate and anger can linger long after death; it is a powerful emotion that is harder to let go than life.
“If there is one thing I have learned from both our trades, it is that we must always be in the business of forgiveness, lest we become consumed by our anger.”
