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One of the very first things my grandmother taught me was that men ain’t shit.
“They were the inverse and counter to each other. A healer and killer, circling slowly, the push and pull inexorable.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“Sometimes she wished she’d died in the hospital with her father, to be remembered and mourned for her possibilities, rather than live day by day growing ever lesser. Now it didn’t matter if she’d been an alchemist, or a healer, or anything else. To anyone who ever learned of it, she would only be that one thing. Women were always defined by the lowliest thing they could be called.”
― 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
“He’d loved her, even though he never expected them to be anything but doomed. He’d loved her all the same.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“You made me feel like the parts of me that aren’t useful still deserve to exist. Like I’m not just all the things I can do.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
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