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your people. Most people would simply give up, yet you've never wavered. Only a monster would think a woman like that was weak.

You left your country and family behind for a marriage you never asked for, just to keep the peace. You risked your life to save mine, and now you're risking it again to protect a land that isn't even your home. And on top of that, you're clearly in pain and should be in bed under the care of a greenwitch, not making yourself worse by riding through the cold, but you're determined to push on anyway, for the sake of

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promises of love that they recant when darker hair and deeper yes are cast in their direction. Time and time again, we are called out as the emotional ones, the irrational ones. Women don't get drunk like men and hurl insults at strangers or throw rocks in protests. Women use words and reason where men use fists and force. So why are we always second?

Why is it that women are viewed as unstable? Women hold knives more often in the day than men ever do, yet it is not women who stab their husbands to death when they fear adultery. Women gather in clusters with friendships stronger than steel, yet it is not women who beat their husbands to the ground in gangs when a hint of wrongdoing echoes in the air. It is not women who require lover after lover, then make

"The gods are the ones that cause this," Medusa answered. "Their power, their strength. Their stubborn anger and terror. They show man everything they cannot have control over and, as such, force men to claim dominion over the one thing that they can."

A word, a dozen words now. I do not believe that a goddess would strip or salvage a person based on one action when they have a thousand behind them and a hundred thousand yet to come. Your decision was made before I stepped foot into this temple. All that awaits me is to hear it.

Because, my goddess, you have seen me. You know what my tongue can do. What my hand can make and weave and bake. You have seen my heart, my will, and my father's and mother's and sisters' too. What words I speak or do not, now, at this moment, will have no bearing on what happens to me. You are a goddess. Had you wished to, you could have overturned our journey a dozen times or more. You did not.

Some believe that monsters are born monsters.
That some creatures arrive on this earth with a darkness so all-consuming in their hearts that no mere mortal's love could ever hope to tame it. These souls, they believe, cannot achieve redemption and do not deserve it. They are beasts, intent on causing chaos for all who cross their paths. They are vengeful and hate-filled, deserving of nothing but our contempt

"Fuck you and your loon!" Ilya said. " Stupid Canadian wolf bird."

Calling someone their child and then proceeding to make out with them is creepy. I get it he sired her as he made her a vampire but the word choices are ick

I swear I'm enjoying this. It's just slow going being an ebook and all