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“Matilda's magic was about to rewrite all the old myths.”

“I hear you, daughter.”

MY HEART.

“I had never called him that, but it was what he was to me. No blood tethered us, but without him, I would not have been who I was.”

“Let me live in this moment.”

“This will break us both in the end.”

“We were doomed, she and I.
One day, I would perish, and she would live on, endless as the stars.
But if we were doomed, then let us fully embrace it.”

"I cannot pretend with you any longer," she said. "I love you. I have loved you for a long time."

YES YES YES

“I do not want this to be pretense any longer”

“I had to fight that inner pull toward Vincent again. The desire to drop everything and run to him. He was a place where I knew I would be safe.
I acknowledged it, then.
It was not the letter, undelivered. A weight in my belt.
It was the gilded edge of my own will. My own flesh and blood, wanting to be close to him.”

“I should have been surprised to have yet another god within my fortress, unannounced. They were like cats, I thought, drawn to the people who liked them least.”