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Money and one less mouth to feed? What a thoughtful government.
Everything about me is stripped of color, just as Metias has been stripped from my life.
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system. And if you choose to rebel, bring me with you.
We were the look of a family forever on the edge of respectable.
Music is the sound of God, Nannerl, he would say. If given the talent, it means God has chosen you as an ambassador for His voice. Your music will be as if God has given you eternal life.
frown from Papa might as well have been a frown from Heaven, for what it did to my mood.
Men, my mother had always advised, were incapable of resisting praise. If you needed something from them, you first told them about all the ways they impressed.
My hands returned to the pendant, its black eye staring silently back up at me. I wondered if it could see into all the drawers and pockets of my father’s mind, if it could tell me if I was still kept carefully in there.
