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I am Delilah Bard, she thought as the ropes cut into her skin. I am a thief and a pirate and a traveler. I have set foot in three different worlds, and lived. I have shed the blood of royals and held magic in my hands. And a ship full of
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“The kids who grow up fine do so because of us, or despite us.”
― Model Home
― Model Home
“It made me seethe, hang up the phone, to know her life was going on as normal without her children-like we'd never been born, like the house never touched her the way it touched us.”
― Model Home
― Model Home
“Mama knows she is being cruel, and I know that she knows that she's being cruel, and she knows that I know, and she wants to stop, but she also wants to not stop because it feels too good to make her point.”
― Model Home
― Model Home
“You telling me you don't know by now to expect pain? says Mama.
I lived in a house devoted to my breaking apart, but I refused to be wrong in front of Mama.
I guess I hope every time it will be different.
I wait for Mama to mock my confession. A woman dedicated to relentless self-reliance, she's built her three children to be invulnerable.”
― Model Home
I lived in a house devoted to my breaking apart, but I refused to be wrong in front of Mama.
I guess I hope every time it will be different.
I wait for Mama to mock my confession. A woman dedicated to relentless self-reliance, she's built her three children to be invulnerable.”
― Model Home
“Despite all the coddling denied me as a child, I never became the independent island of my mother's dreams. I'm a baby bird, chirping for anyone at all to spit food into my mouth.”
― Model Home
― Model Home
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