“even a person raised in captivity learns to want, yearns to see beyond their cage. How much of our humanity is intrinsic? How much remains, when all else is stripped away?”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“It is strange that I am dying from a diseased womb, I who have never had periods, I who have never known men.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“You didn't have to sneak out of bed,"
"I didn't sneak."
"Then why didn't you stay?... tomorrow I won't let you leave so easily."
"I thought you just said it was just one night."
"I thought you never believed what I said.”
― The Ballad of Never After
"I didn't sneak."
"Then why didn't you stay?... tomorrow I won't let you leave so easily."
"I thought you just said it was just one night."
"I thought you never believed what I said.”
― The Ballad of Never After
“I am a monster, but whether you remember it or not, I’m your monster, Evangeline.”
― A Curse for True Love
― A Curse for True Love
“Sometimes the women pitied me, saying that at least they'd known real life, and I was very jealous of them, but they died, as I am about to die, and what does having lived mean once you are no longer alive?”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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