“What do you do when the two people who are supposed to protect you the most are the monsters tearing you to pieces?”
― Betty
― Betty
“Boys are like that, always trying to pretend they're saving girls from something. They never seem to realize we can save ourselves.”
― Betty
― Betty
“they asked "do you love her to death?"
i said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life”
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i said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life”
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“I realized then that not only did Dad need us to believe his stories, we needed to believe them as well. To believe in unripe stars and eagles able to do extraordinary things. What it boiled down to was a frenzied hope that there was more to life than the reality around us. Only then could we claim a destiny we did not feel cursed to.”
― Betty
― Betty
“My father's hands were soil. My mother's were rain. No wonder they could not hold one another without causing enough mud for two. And yet out of that mud, they built us a house that became a home”
― Betty
― Betty
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