Better to be lonely and feel the sharp edges of it, she thought, than to be empty and filled with nothing.
“Their laughter covered how she wanted to squirm, wanted to be grateful for being not a barbarian enough that citizenship would have been a possibility and hating herself for wanting to be grateful, all at once.”
― A Memory Called Empire
― A Memory Called Empire
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― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
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