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“I’m so angry sometimes, I look at you and I want to break things. I know you’ve suffered, and I’m sorry for that, but I am your daughter, and I suffered, too.”

“My girlhood was stolen from me.” She couldn’t believe she was admitting this, that she was brave enough to look her mother in the eyes and say, “And though you were not the thief, you did not do anything to stop it from happening.“

“I had to tiptoe my way through childhood for fear of upsetting you, and now I try to move through the world without making a sound.”

Hit me so incredibly hard

‘No. No, she couldn’t deal with this now. Evie simply did not have the time to dredge up everything darkening her beliefs, one painful thought at a time

‘He would tell her to stand up for herself, and why shouldn’t she? Everything she’d ever feared came true, even when she was careful. She was sick of being careful, sick of being scared. It felt well past time for her to embrace simple, reckless courage’

“You’re lying. That smile is fake”
“Forgive me, but I don’t believe you to be an expert judge on that subject, Sir-Frowns-A-Lot” “It’s. Fake.”
“So what?”
He blinked at her. “So what? What do you mean, so what?”
“Who cares if it’s fake?”
“I care, you urchin, Stop faking it for other people. No one is asking you to. What is wrong?”

‘This was the price of feeling too deeply. Evie knew she was capable of the wildest, most uninhibited joy…but her pain was just as great. Pain was something she hid, twisting herself into knots, trying to clear more space for the people she cared for. And she had only herself to blame for it. This was who she was. It was far too late to change.’

They are making me laugh, so silly and lovely and fun

‘Evie held her midsection with a small moan. “Don’t say ‘breakfast.’ My stomach is eating itself.”
“I’ll make breakfast,” Trystan said quickly
Evie’s eyes went round. “You’ll make what?” Trystan shrugged “It’s just breakfast, Sage. No cause for alarm.”
Trystan had avoided the kitchen since becoming The Villain and now was offering to cook something for the third time in a month.’

Her fingers fell over his lips. “You don’t need to say anything back. I’m not telling you so I can receive platitudes,” she said fiercely. “I’m telling you because you deserve to hear it. I’m telling you because you deserve to know that someone does, very much, love you.” Whatever pieces of him that declaration left behind were hers to keep.’

‘in a shy whisper, her light eyes glimmering with unshed tears, she said words he thought he’d never hear from anyone ever again: “I love you.” He pulled back farther so he could see her remarkable eyes, always brimming with her every emotion, like a message only he could read.
“You I-“

I love this series so much. They are all precious and I adore them.
Truly one of the only things that brings me happiness lately.