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That was all that mattered, getting some of the words out before they piled too full inside you.
“People who love each other can stay together in other ways. In their hearts.”
Saying it out loud to another person made the weight of it diminish.
Women got the short end of the evolutionary stick when it comes to body strength. In most cases, a man can physically dominate a woman. And the anatomy of human genitalia makes the disadvantage even worse.”
magical mix of black-molasses night, falling-sugar snow, and a spice of stars hidden behind the storm.
drunk water straight from their rushing rivers, bathed in waterfalls, meditated in meadows aflame with alpine flowers, spent hours and hours watching the mountains’
“I’ve always admired you. You’re so strong about everything. But now I see I shouldn’t have admired that.” She made her familiar wry half smile. “I should have tried to help you not be strong, to let your guard down sometimes.”
“You began as a beautiful dream long before you came to me.
Hatred was an addictive emotion, and it thrived best with frequent injections that kept the high going.
“That’s the point of indoctrination,” River said, “to make you think what you believe was your idea all along.”
The more I took, the more I needed.
Who could know their future with a person they cared about? And even if they did somehow find out something bad was going to happen with that person, would they give up on them? Let them suffer alone? Love couldn’t be removed like a thorn from a thumb.
she turned your birth into a sudden act of magic that wasn’t half as miraculous as the truth. Imagine all the incredible events that had to happen for you to be here. The astrophysical, geological, and evolutionary processes that made you—and all life on earth—are the great wonders of our universe.”
Ellis loved how full her house felt. With family, new friends, laughter, healing. She nearly cried during dinner more than once.
