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Her captor did hear the girl’s terrified pleas. He turned off the flashlight and stood in the darkness, soaking up her terror as she shrieked and begged for him to return. Then, after the screams had given way to exhausted whimpers, he
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“It is not a weakness to be seen”
― The Poet Empress
― The Poet Empress
“It is true, he has suffered, but if everyone who suffered became monsters, the world would be overrun with them.”
― The Poet Empress
― The Poet Empress
“You saw what those thousands of people did in front of my father. All the fanfare, all the ceremony—the charade, the theater—I can’t stand it. I loathe to think of people pretending they mourn me when they do not, or praising me when they detest me, or remembering me as kind when I was wicked. I cannot bear the thought of anyone offering to go echo-step with me when they do not mean it.' His voice wavered with real emotion, real fear. 'Wei—if I die tomorrow, I beg of you, don’t let them make a spectacle of me in my death. I wish to die quietly, just as I am.”
― The Poet Empress
― The Poet Empress
“This whole time in the palace, I may have been occupied with my own survival, but that did not mean I didn’t think of them often. I missed home with a terrible, constant ache—an ache that was not noticed when there were more pressing pains, but when everything was calm again, on a day like this one, it was there waiting for me.”
― The Poet Empress
― The Poet Empress
“I am beginning to suspect,' he said, in barely a whisper, 'that you are not afraid enough of me.”
― The Poet Empress
― The Poet Empress
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