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There’s freedom in stories, you know. We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives, and while we turn the pages, we get to live them. To escape the lot we’ve been given.”
“We don’t just read to imagine better lives. We read to be introduced to all kinds of lives. Any kind. Not just for ourselves, but for everyone around us. To understand others better. It’s escape, and it’s also a way to become more connected to everyone around you.
What pain it is, to know a memory is gone but not what it is.
This is sad
She was neither, it seemed. Or at least, she didn’t reap the benefit of either.
Non binary?
“Love does not work in terms of convenience. Or any kind of sense.”
“There’s nothing out there to punish evil, no one out there to reward the righteous. We’re all just adrift.”
Pain begets life, Your Majesty, and life begets pain.” The queen left then and saw her land anew. Everywhere flowers bloomed and crops thrived. And still, the queen’s heart beat.
It was not in her nature to complain so, but she wanted to make Inouye feel bad, wanted to see the sting of guilt on his face. It would not make her feel better, not really, but it’d at least spread her discontent so that she did not bear the burden of it alone.
This part. The toxicity of doing something that won’t make you feel better but that will make someone feel bad to take the burden of it all off you. Hurt people hurt people. Bullies are bullied.
