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“We are not granted endless choices. Any decisions we make are within the confines of what we did not—could not—decide.”

She doesn’t seem surprised,and maybe that’s the worst of what she’s done to him—that she continues to witness the terrible things that have happened to him,and she acts like the fact that he can endure them means they aren’t so terrible after all

His mother makes me so angry I want to beat her.She knew what they were doing to him and did nothing,her "I'm sorry,why won't you forgive me?" is beyond insulting

“You want me,and you trust me,I think.Seems like plenty.I so rarely get anything I want”
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There’s something especially cruel about finding out that your tormentor isn’t random,that they selected you,that they designed the shape of your pain in order to fit you into their destiny. Randomness,chaos,the indifferent universe...they would be easier to bear

I want to wrap him in a blanket and send him to therapy

“You hate me, and I’m glad you do, because I don’t know what I would do with your forgiveness if you offered it. I’m not your Knight, because you won’t have me, and I’m not bound by any oath, because the Fever swallows oaths, but neither of those things matters”
He touches his forehead to hers, the movement so sudden and so intimate. “My life is still forfeit to you.My life is still yours.”

He just wants to look like a person no one ever touched in violence. Brand-¬new and unhurt.

Theren 😭 I don't want to see his memories, I don't want to see them, it's too much pain.
His reunion with Isre was everything

I already feel sick thinking of what they must have done to him, please don't make me read details. Those people all deserve to 🪦 because the ones who stood by and watch him get abused are just as bad. And God his mother... can I kick her over and over again?

I don't read much sci-fi, I have read just one alien romance series and a few star wars, so this could turn out to be a great catch or not for me at all, who knows. The premise is very intriguing.