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“He would get on his knees sometimes to beg for forgiveness—he would do that only for mama. Even in church he didn’t kneel.”

And despite that, his devotion turned aggressive and rotten

Protecting someone who abuses women is worse than being the abuser.

“I lived my life in a language I will never hear again,”

“Your many lives—I have just this one.”

the kind of dramatics you see in a Shakespearean playwright

“For a long time I didn’t know what to do. And then one day I saw her, inside you.”

Nothing like grooming the child of your dead lover who moved on and convincing yourself that said child is your lover, reborn.

Also saying that one of the girls you would pay to have sex with likes it when she bleeds a bit down there from how rough you go at it? Insane.

Anka would thrive in the life that Yana leads.

I hate how men get glorified for a woman’s achievment.

I love poison

I don’t even know what to think anymore