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A girl isn’t fit to be anything more than a prize. My father promised he’d never force me to marry. He taught me to hunt and to fight like a man. I was just as good as all my brothers. And now?” Lady Sarnai wrung her hands. “He broke his
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“Because I know that having arthritis, being autistic, does not make me less whole or human. It doesn’t make me wrong or broken. It makes some things in my life more challenging in ways, yes, and maybe I don’t represent the “norm,” but I can be someone who surmounts obstacles without it meaning there’s something fundamentally lacking in my makeup.”
― Always Only You
― Always Only You
“People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“The first place you live alone, away from your family, he said, is the first place you become a person, the first place you become yourself.”
― Severance
― Severance
“A queen
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.”
― Clap When You Land
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.”
― Clap When You Land
“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
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