When we first worked with couples, the median marriage age for first-time marriages was twenty-three years for men and twenty-one years for women. By 2017, that had risen to thirty years for men and twenty-seven for women.
“What if it’s not that simple, though?” she said “Everyone who wins says they were good, but they’re the ones who tell the story. They get to choose how we all remember it. What if it’s never that simple?”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“Being alive is not the same as living. I hope someday you'll have a chance to realise the difference.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“She lived in the aftermath of every battle, breathed in the devastation until she was drowning in it. Nothing and no one would ever convince her that anything noble or purifying could come from this scale of suffering. That any rewards could ever be worth it.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“She thought she should say something. What she’d tried to tell Lancaster. “Ferron always comes for me,” she whispered.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“You’re like a rose in a graveyard,” he said, and his lips twisted into a bitter smile. “I wonder what you could have turned into without the war.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
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