“Jude was not human before she met Maya. She was a changeling, a facsimile: something that only ever looked human, but never knew what human felt like. So, of course, Maya ruined her. She took Jude’s hollow bones and filled them with thoughts and emotions like lead, so that she fell down to earth—so that she couldn’t fly away anymore.” HumanitySapphic LoveCharacter Growth Book:Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Overcrowded Heart Source: Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Overcrowded Heart
“Mason cries, a complicated sound full of abating grief and rising joy. /That is what it means to be human/, Jude whispers—to herself, to the Witch.” HumanityHopeFearRelief Book:Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Witch's Judgment Source: Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Witch's Judgment