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As long as there’s life, there’s hope.”
“What about his family?” Yizhi’s voice sinks lower, deeper. His eyes darken with a menacing fervor I’ve only glimpsed in him a few times. “They’re not untouchable. Would it be enough for them to be…?”
“There’s no such thing as karma,” I say, enunciating every syllable like I want to crush them with my teeth. “Or, if it does exist, it sure doesn’t give a shit about people like me. Some of us were born to be used and discarded. We can’t afford to simply go along with the flow of life, because nothing in this world has been created, built, or set up in our favor. If we want something, we have to push back against everything around us and take it by force.”
I’m no longer human. I’ve been set free from my broken body, that husk of flesh and bone that has been prepared all its existence to be used for the whims and pleasures of men.
Too bad. I am exactly the kind of ice-blooded, rotten-hearted girl he fears I am. And I am fine with that. May he stay unsettled.
I swallow the impulse to justify myself. I don’t need to. I shouldn’t need to. I made my choice and achieved my goal. That’s the only thing that ever mattered.
Strip away our mortal flesh and pulverize our bones, and whatever still exists for the both of us, exists with the same ferocity.
You made me realize I did a terrible thing, showing up to your house and putting you on the spot like that. I—I tried to buy you, for skies’ sake. I even timed it so I knocked on your door just before the hovercraft came, to catch you with your last-minute regrets.
On some Gale type shit
“When you cherish someone for how amazing they are, you don’t pluck them from their roots just to watch them wither in your hands. You help them bloom into the incredible thing they’re really meant to be.
you inspire me. Whenever I lose hope that the world can change, I remember you. I remember how you fight for what you want, no matter what anyone says, no matter what stands in your way.”
“You’re my polar star. I’ll go wherever you guide me.”
I release a sigh that seems to go on for a thousand years.
“Yes, because love doesn’t solve problems,” I say. “Solving problems solves problems.”
