Anastasia

by Sophie Lark

The Serene Sisters had been quick with the switch but they’d taught him to read, which he viewed as the greatest gift he’d ever receive.

Same

she wanted me to dress and behave as a lady, while I believed that I could have been captain of my own pirate ship if only she’d stop interfering.

“I’m more than you think I am.”

!!!!!!!!!

“Whatever else is taken from you, never lose hope. Even if you see how dark the world can be, choose to believe it could be better.”

told myself that, though in my mind I’d just told Nikolasha the opposite. So it always was with Anastasia. I thought two things at once. I wanted two things at once.

Stay alive, please. I’ve never asked you for anything before. So I may as well start with the hardest and most important thing.

When you’re as cramped and filthy as a bridge troll, realizing you’ve got to pee quite badly, you start to reevaluate certain life decisions.

Tell me about all the beautiful cakes you had at tea, and tell me how you took a warm bath and walked around the park. Tell me all the books you’re reading, the records you play. Let me feel alive again.

“They stole all the time they could, and it still wasn’t nearly long enough.” Anastasia caught my eye. We looked at each other, something painful passing unspoken between us.

Please dont be subtle foreshdowing ill cry

“There’s too little hope left to take any away.”

SOPHIE WHY

“The ones we love aren’t lost to us forever. Love endures past anything else. It’s the strongest energy in the universe. It changes and flows, but can never be destroyed.”

“One heart, one mind, one soul. What is joined by choice can never be torn apart.” She looked up at me, her face my whole world. “You’re mine, and I’m yours. Yesterday, today, and forever.”