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“The only men with wealth are the dangerous ones.” - Cedric

“You did not crawl out of that cage to live a timid life.”

“Yes, Evan, she’s your daughter…” WHAT?! Bruh, he’s gonna be so mad he missed so much or her life despite y’all needing to heal!!! AHH

“No one can tell you whether you love a person or whether what seems like love is solely a shared trauma bond…”

“Most things are just a matter of time, it’s very difficult to believe when you’re in the midst of the pain.”

“Some inverse form of Stockholm syndrome he couldn’t even begin to explain or justify.” 😔

“The true monsters? They’re out there. And they run in packs. They always run in packs”

“They’d won some sick, twisted game.”
“Just like the gladiators of old, who won their freedom when they won the battle.”

Lars & Hanh’s story is similar to the MC’s. The Collector helped them get out and they had their own secret language. 🥰

“They were like wounded warriors who had been through the bloodiest of battles together. They found refuge in each others understanding because in many ways their experience was unspeakable. Together, they required no words. But being in each others presence also brought with it visions and memories that were easier to bury when that person wasn’t there.”

“She looked in his eyes, and she knew she loved him.” - THEN SEVEN YEARS PASS?!?! BRUH 😭

Chapter Eighteen: Healing Love “Breathe and look at me.”

Note: Noelle’s Dad died of a heart attack right after she went missing… now I’m heartbroken

“Bereft of the boy who’d held her fingers throughout her nightmare, who may never hold her fingers again.”

“Forget with me. Make new memories. We’ll only think of this. This is all we’ll let ourselves remember.”

Note: The Collector gave them the tools they needed for escape, to start a fire, break a hand to unlock their cages. There’s still half a book left and they’ve escaped! Ah!

“All those half-drugged girls, naked and draped in gems. They made him feel like a king.”

Note: Evan was beat and raped by a man as well wtf

“We leave here while. And we leave her together.”

“Would I break the rules?”
“You’re so hot when you’re mad.”
What was the collector trying to tell her? To break the pencil in a hot way so they wouldn’t notice if she stole something? Or to stay hot so they the renters didn’t start trying to kill them?

“But when so much is wrong, sometimes you must find what rightness you can.”

Note: The collector father was rich and a perve who collected girls, one got pregnant with him and his twin. Perhaps from his story.

Noelle & Evan’s secret language found through misery rhymes.

I love that they sing nursery rhymes to each other after being “rented”

“We stay whole. We leave here whole.”

“We’re being rented out to sickos and prevents. It’s as simple as that.”

“We need each other now. Nothing else matters.”
“She’d saved those fingers of his; he’d never forget that. But she’d paid dearly for it.”

“If all the little raindrops were lemon drops and lollipops.” - Evan sang to give Noelle some privacy after her rape encounter

Collector: Spent money that would be as much as someone’s mortgage payments to feed them a decent meal. Without strings attached for now. Possibly help free them.

“He wasn’t interested in watching an old man grunt and rot as he tore into a young virgin.” - Collector (Not a good guy but not a rapist)