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“People say things they don’t mean when they’re hurt and wish to make others hurt with them,” her mother had said once when Oddny was younger and had come crying to her after an argument with Signy. “You’re sisters. When two people know each other as well as you girls do, you know the exact things to say that will cause each other the most pain.”
“You’ll get used to being afraid. If you don’t feel fear, why would you need to be brave?”
When your patron calls you, they’ll judge your strengths and weaknesses against yourself, not against others.”
No goddess was going to appear out of the woods to help her; she was on her own.
“Curious, isn’t it, the things that stay with us, and the things we choose to forget?”
But to me, you’ve been someone all along. You never had anything to prove.
“How will you ever master your fear if you won’t admit to feeling it in the first place? Embrace it. Wield it. Things are only going to get more difficult from here. But in the end, it shall be worth it.”
I don’t think the dead want us to die for them. I think a better way to honor them is to live.”
“I was so rotten to you that day.” “You were, but—you’re my sister. I’d do anything for you.”
“That a woman need not be defined by her men. That she can stand for herself and make her own way.”
Just because she’d been rescued didn’t mean she’d healed.
