Kaylin’s Reviews > The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5 > Status Update

Almost midnight now, my face pressed against the cool glass.

I can Almost hear them.

Footsteps on the stairs. 🥹🩷

"....But it seems that sword pierced Christ so that we always have a future. Even one different than planned."

"He said goodbye, and I've almost become brave enough to say it back. To see a life ahead. Even if its different from what I'd planned."

And

"It takes a great deal to trust the future after one is acquainted with loss."

Through fire, nature is reborn whole.

"...it's easier to confess in the morning, but more beautiful to confess at dusk."

"The stars incline us they do not bind us."

And

"Will my life become more illustrious?"
"Hopefully less ridiculous."

"Tonight, Islington became a stake. And Pierc. And Mary. And Saffronia. And Hawkes.
All I can think of is the sound of rain on the canopy and everyone still smiling."

"And I think that was the moment I began to to suspect that the luck Hawkes spoke of might really only be an awareness, an awareness of grace."

From the expression on Mrs. Penury's face, shr was living the life she'd always hoped for. 🤣

"Can a man not even die without a woman tracking his every move? They already outline his entire life. His mother! His sisters! And eventually, his wife! Slow suffocation by silk and taffeta is our fate." 😂