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“she doesn’t deserve to be forgotten like this. She shouldn’t be a footnote. This shouldn’t be the only entry she even has. She deserves her own chapter. She deserves a whole bloody book of her own.”

“The way you thought we’d always be together, and talked about running away almost until the end. I would have done anything to give you what you wanted, but—”

who is paying my therapy bill huh

“I expect the universe to eventually give in a bit. I thought we’d earned each other. I thought we’d both suffered enough that we’d get to have each other.”

this quote is too painful for me to handle

“when the war felt so heavy I thought I’d finally break under it, I’d tell myself: someday you’re going to run away with him. You’ll go somewhere quiet. You won’t ask for very much, just you and him and that will be enough.”

she deserves the world :(

“She kissed each of his scars, and he kissed hers.”

“I always have to choose, and I never get to choose you. I’m so tired of not getting to choose you.”

“Believe me, I would run with you if I could. I always would have—" His voice faded for a moment. "That was never an option, now was it?”

“but I cannot save an army that will never be willing to pay the price that victory demands. I am sick of watching you try to pay it for them.”

“We had a good run, Granger, but we were never going to last. You knew that.”