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“To live well, you must learn to see yourself first.”

‘[…] The neglected ones, the unlucky ones, the ones who want more than they've been given. The ones who have to crawl and scrape and fight their way up from the very bottom, who have to game a system designed for them to lose. Always the first to be punished and blamed when things go wrong. Always the last to be seen, to be saved.’

“No,” he says softly. “Of course not.”
“Then why…” My voice trembles. I inhale, try again. “Why do I feel so fucking tired all the time?”

"You—you and all the kids at Airington... All you have is light. Light and glory and power and the whole world laid out for you, just waiting for you to take whatever you like." I draw in a shaky breath, wrap my arms tighter around myself, bury my chin into the pillow. "Is it really too much to ask? For people like me to want a bit of that light for ourselves?"

this paragraph bro.

His lips twitch. It's the same half-suppressed smile he wears when he's making his grand closing statement in a debate tournament, or when he knows the answer to a particularly hard question in class, or when he's making an impressive business pitch. It's the smile he wears when he's about to get what he wants. "Are you saying you find my presence distracting, Alice?"

‘[…] suddenly all too aware of the heat in my cheeks, the anger curled in my chest that no longer feels like anger, but something else.
Something worse.
“Just—whatever.” […] “Anyway. What was I saying?”
[…] “You were telling me how much you hate me.”

“Wait.” Something shifts in the black depths of his eyes. “You think I’m attractive?”

‘Secrets, I’m realising, are their own kind of currency.’