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Daphne would say that Vera is too old to believe in things like that, and she’s mostly given up on the notion of magic powers, but there’s a part of her that still hopes to discover something special and vibrant within herself.
“Boys are just like girls, in almost every way. But men … men are demons, Vee.”
That house would never let you leave.
“He tried to build us strong and steady and whole. But he didn’t keep us safe. He didn’t know how to shelter us from all the hurt that was waiting, because he thought that hurt was the shape of love.”
Many of us spend our lives searching for something too big to truly name, something that is often (inadequately) summarized as ‘unconditional love.’ If you have gone out seeking this enormous thing, and found yourself in danger; if you have spent any part of your life thinking that something monstrous was normal or inevitable; if you have lost some part of yourself in the process of looking for a place that feels like home—I hope you know that you have always deserved a better kind of love than that.
Sarah Gailey's acknowledgments making me emotional again
