It began as just a tiny idea that I let slip between my ears and sit there like a little bird on a perch. I started to like the song that it was singing to me, something sweet, joyous, and hopeful.
“The price we paid for the resentment, the lust, and the greed of arrogant men was our pain, shining and bright like the blade of a newly honed knife.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
“What I did not know was that I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: however blameless a life we led, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
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