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“I don’t ever want to be the soldier.”
“I don’t either.”
“But if he ever comes after Lahn or Ayu – ”
“In the heat of the moment you’ll be the soldier,” Loto told him. “You’ll know what to do and you’ll do it, and it will be right. You’ll hate doing it – later, probably, not right at that moment – later you’ll hate having done it, but in the heat of the moment, you’ll do what you need to do.”
― Loto
“I don’t either.”
“But if he ever comes after Lahn or Ayu – ”
“In the heat of the moment you’ll be the soldier,” Loto told him. “You’ll know what to do and you’ll do it, and it will be right. You’ll hate doing it – later, probably, not right at that moment – later you’ll hate having done it, but in the heat of the moment, you’ll do what you need to do.”
― Loto
“Remember that no matter what you make yourself look like, I will always think you are beautiful.” - Loto to his daughter Lahn”
― Haru
― Haru
“Haru, this. This is the sum of our nearly fifteen years together. I have always stood by you and supported you and loved you and helped you. That’s not going to change no matter what decisions you make, even if those decisions tear my heart out of my chest. Do you have any idea how much I would miss you if you left?”
― Loto
― Loto
“Do you know why I’m saying all this? Because I’ve learned something from being married three times. I’ve learned no matter who you are, where you live, or who you’re married to, life is hard. Bad things happen on a regular basis. So do good things. You need to decide who you want by your side when the bad things happen. You need to know who you want to share the good things with.
“Don’t marry just to marry. I did that, and now I’m stuck with a woman I can’t share the bad things with, a woman who doesn’t care about my good things. I don’t want that for you. Until you know beyond a shadow of a doubt you want to go through bad things with Haru, don’t marry him. Until you can’t imagine going through good things without him, don’t marry him.”
― Loto
“Don’t marry just to marry. I did that, and now I’m stuck with a woman I can’t share the bad things with, a woman who doesn’t care about my good things. I don’t want that for you. Until you know beyond a shadow of a doubt you want to go through bad things with Haru, don’t marry him. Until you can’t imagine going through good things without him, don’t marry him.”
― Loto
“Remember that no matter what you make yourself look like, I will always think you are beautiful.”
― Haru
― Haru
“Healing isn’t going back to what you were before. It will never be like it was before. For me, healing was about being able to enjoy the present moment again. It took a long time, and it wasn’t one big thing where suddenly I was healed. Some days I was all right, and then I’d go back to not being all right again. I’d say now I’m all right more often than I’m not. I can enjoy things and not feel guilty.”
― Akela
― Akela
“I love this baby. I don’t know what he looks like. I don’t know what his biological father looks like or what traits he might have passed down. I don’t care. I love this baby because it’s my baby. I want it, and I love it, and if it’s born with three arms and no legs, I will love this baby. This baby is perfect because I want it, and it’s mine.”
― Akela
― Akela
