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“Coward that I am, I flee. My heart thundering, my hands shaking. But I can’t pretend that I don’t like the sound of him screaming my name”

“Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same.
So too, power”

“I have stood apart from the world for so long. That has made it hard for me to navigate being in it, but it has also made me an excellent observer.”

“What a freeing thought it was to no longer believe I had to deserve something in order to get it.”
He’s right; that would be a shockingly freeing thought.
“Stop waiting,” Madoc says. “Sink those pretty teeth into something.”

Monsters have teeth like mine.
He grins as though I am finally getting his point. “That they do.”

“I would say that you lost yourself along the way, but you lost yourself far before that,” the storm hag tells me as I pass her. “Wake up, little bird.”

“And disturbingly, I see myself in her. Resentful, and trapped, and full of thwarted desire. The worst parts of me, and all my worst potential.”

“ I am too much of a coward to do more than lie there and yearn”

“Sometimes life gives us the terrible gift of our own wishes come true.”

“ try to believe, whatever happens, whatever I say or do or have done, that my intention is for us to all survive this. For us to win.”

“Some people laugh in the face of death. He laughs in the face of despair”