“I remember how angry she was when Taryn and I gave in to Faerie and started having fun. Crowns of flowers on our heads, shooting bows and arrows at the sky. Eating candied violets and falling asleep with our heads pillowed on logs. We were children. Children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night. But to hold a blade in my hand, a blade like the one that killed my parents, and think it was a toy, she'd have to believe I was heartless.”
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“And he said... ...you should not cry when you have shed the burden of truth.”
“I feel as if I were about to explode. I know crying would help, but I can't cry. I'm restless.”
“His walk and stare. Was as poisonous as the air after a nuclear bomb.”