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Somehow, that makes it even worse, the way everyone goes along with this charade. How no one ever cries out or tries to stop their child from marrying a stranger. Our compliance is the strongest weapon President Lattimer has in his arsenal.
My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.
oop
He’s got a small sack of groceries in one arm. There is a container of strawberries resting at the top.
😭
Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else’s story.
she’s so me coded
Dislike is an emotion I can respect.
me
she walks fast everywhere she goes, like she’s rushing to catch something that’s always disappearing around the farthest corner.
it appears this book was written about me???
Is it still manipulation if you know it’s happening, but it works anyway?
And does she not understand how a child will trap her?
lmaooo me
Love isn’t something you can legislate. Love is more than charts and graphs and matching interests. Love is messy and complicated and it is a mistake to deny its random magic.
“Maybe freedom’s overrated,” Victoria says as she stands. “We had freedom before the war. And look where it got us.”
oop 😳
You’re easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.
I kiss him until I can’t breathe, until I have to pull back or die and it’s still a close call which I’d prefer.
BYE 😭
He tips his head down and rests his lips against my hair. I am content to stay that way and he seems to be, too. And so we do. A boy and a girl holding each other between the sheets.
whew this is gonna hurt when it inevitably goes up in flames!!! 😃😃😃
When I was younger, there were summers you could scoop handfuls from the air without even trying, enough to fill a jar for a nighttime lantern or to make a glowing ring if you had the will to pluck the shimmering tails from their bodies. I never did, but Callie would do it for me. There is a lesson in there somewhere, if I care to think about it.
a lesson indeed…..
“Because I’m in love with you, Ivy,” he whispers. “Giving up on you isn’t an option.”
literally goodbye
But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater than my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.
I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones. After everything, I can’t be sorry for loving Bishop. And I’m not sorry for saving him, either, even if I sacrificed myself in the process. It was my choice and I’m proud of it. If that makes me soft, then it’s a softness I can finally live with.
