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“I held my breath, but it didn't feel like I was holding my breath, it felt like there should never have been breath. It felt like the entire concept of breath had been something I imagined. After all, my body was never meant to move like this. These lungs had to have been built for show. They should never have expanded and I should never have been alive.”
― Freshwater
― Freshwater
“Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen”
― Freshwater
― Freshwater
“But it is only a fool who does not know that freedom is paid for in old clotted blood, in fresh reapings of it, in renewed scarifications.”
― Freshwater
― Freshwater
“The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost.”
― Freshwater
― Freshwater
“We came from somewhere—everything does. When the transition is made from spirit to flesh, the gates are meant to be closed. It’s a kindness. It would be cruel not to.”
― Freshwater
― Freshwater
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