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Can anyone convince me to continue reading the invisible life of addie la rue? :)
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elisa (taylor's version)
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Dec 03, 2023 10:29PM

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,, "If you could do it again," he says, "would you still make the deal?" And Addie says yes.
It has been a hard and lonely life, she says, and a wonderful one, too.
She has lived through wars, and fought in them, witnessed revolution and rebirth. She has left her mark on a thousand works of art, like a thumbprint in the bottom of a drying bowl. She has seen marvels, and gone mad, has danced in snowbanks and frozen to death along the Seine. She fell in love with the darkness many times, fell in love with a human once.
And she is tired. Unspeakably tired.
But there is no question she has lived.
"Nothing is all good or all bad," she says. "Life is so much messier than that."
And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it.
Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow?
Were the moments of beauty worth the years of pain?
And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says,
"Always.
