Emily M’s Reviews > The Storm of Life > Status Update

Uggh, Teo, I’m glad you’re realizing why this was a TERRIBLE plan! But how you could even come up with it knowing Cielo was already mad about the thing at the core of it…do you want to keep up this act forever? Because you might have to!

“I felt I was seeing two cities at once - the one that existed now, and the one that would replace it if Beniamo was allowed to rise to power…He would not stop until every one of these people was as nervous as I had been as a child…He wanted me to have nothing. To BE nothing. With this much distance between us, I could see a new truth: that was how Beniamo felt…and he wished the rest of us to feel it too.”

"I discovered a truth: the forms that pleased me most were the freest ones, with no boyish or girlish aspects. I had come to love my girlish body, but it was not the whole of me. I found comfort in this boy's form, but I couldn't imagine swearing off every other just to please a world shaped by men."

"'Be quiet, please,' Mimi said, pressing Cielo back down to rest. 'Will it help me heal faster?' Cielo asked eagerly. 'It will help me not kill you,' Mimi daid. 'So yes.'"

“‘But if we are to take on the whole Eterran army, we need all of our powers together, in a sort of concert…If any of our notes clash…’ ‘We die,’ Vanni said. ‘That’s no really like music,’ Mimi said.”
😂

“I almost snorted, but I could see Cielo mocking me already. You forced your throat into the blade with a snort? What a very di Sangro way to die ”

Aww, Cielo being so nervous about meeting Teo’s family that they’re GLITCHING is cute. I can just see Teo going: “Dad, sis, this is my boyfriend…girlfriend…boyf…uh, PERSON. Cielo, chill out, jeez!”