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“You want to ruin my life, Destiny?
Get in line. I’ll call your number when the rest of my family has finished.”

“It shouldn’t have been surprising to her that when given the choice of whether to help others, many instead willfully chose to hurt them. As a child, she had been taught that it was the villains who made that choice, but now she realized it was actually the boastful kings and lords—the ones who accepted love but not responsibility.”

Blade and Becky, almost attacked by a plant, K -I - S - S - I - N - G!!

“But then again, she supposed that’s where her true strength lived—in her ability to be vulnerable, in the depth of her feelings. The greatest power was bestowed to those who were brave enough to feel emotion and to do so thoroughly.”

“She masked the hurt with a smile, and he hated himself for being yet another person in her life who gave her cause to do so.”

“My girlhood was stolen from me. And though you were not the thief, you did not do anything to stop it from happening.”

“I know you’ve suffered, and I’m sorry for that, but I am your daughter, and I suffered, too.”

“Do you know how silly that makes me feel now? How awful it is to sacrifice integral pieces of myself for others and they don’t even care enough to notice?”

“It all hurt. This was the price of feeling too deeply.”

“Evie was so very tired of being denied what she wanted. And unfortunately, she still wanted to kiss her boss the way she had the night before—just as much as she wanted to throw a pot of soup at his head”