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“In that moment they didn’t need words. Their matching expressions spoke for them.
Let me save you.
No, you let me save you.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

“It's strange, isn't it?" he said. "You would think it would be impossible to feel two such contradicting emotions about a person at once. To hate someone so much you wish them dead, while at the same time the thought of them being hurt is unbearable. You can't stop yourself from worrying even when you know you shouldn't, can't stop yourself from looking at the door in case they might still walk through it.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

“You don’t notice the bars of the cage,” Beata said, “unless you start to throw yourself against them. Surviving is a choice too.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls