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"I didn’t sign up to waste away in some tower room while the world went on turning outside.

You told me I would live. I want to live."

"I was no woman; I was merely a supplicant, a pilgrim who had stumbled across your dark altar and was doomed to worship at it for ever.

I don’t know what I had been thinking, supposing I was strong enough to leave."


I'M GOING TO GET YOU OUT OF THERE

"But I am not your wife anymore, my lord, and I don’t think you ever truly saw me as a whole woman.

I was always a student. A project. An accessory in the legal and decorative sense."