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Despite his glare, he looks like he’s about a second from tipping over. “I stay with her.”
“You took my belligerence and tossed a uniform in my face. You met Osrik’s kill drive and decided to give him your sword. You saw every jail cell that couldn’t hold Judd and, instead of tossing him in another one, let him keep the keys. This time, you found your goldfinch and watched her leave her cage. She’ll open her eyes, just like you got the rest of us to do.”
― Glow
― Glow
“And maybe there, we can be home, for just a little while. Because my new home, I’ve realized…is him.”
― Gold
― Gold
“Where are we going?” I ask him again. “Such impatience.” I roll my eyes. “Like you’d let me lead you somewhere without telling you where it was.” “Oh, Goldfinch, I’d follow you to the end of the world and tip right off the edge, all because of a crook of your finger.”
― Glow
― Glow
“But if you’re ever doubting, just stop and listen to the voice in your head. So long as the voice is yours and not his, then you know you’re beating the bastard.”
― Glow
― Glow
“I don’t mean die physically, but mentally. Emotionally. Spiritually.” She presses a hand to her chest, thumping it twice. “You can’t contemplate or settle or thrive when you’re living like that. I was dead and running, just trying to keep up with survival. Just making it one day. People don’t get that, you know? If they’ve never lived like that. It’s one day. A whole slew of one-day-at-a-times, just getting through, squeezing by. Always running, never expecting anything else.”
― Glow
― Glow
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