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21 " You’ll try to help, but you will not make promises. "
― Deirdre Sullivan , Tangleweed and Brine
22 " The things you care for sometimes try to hurt. You must protect yourself. And those around you. "
23 " There are things we can’t do for ourselves. "
24 " Everything you gather can be lost, "
25 " It’s nicer wild, but folk don’t like it that way. They like their women coiled and wrapped and soft. "
26 " Words are not truths. Your father said he loved you. He didn’t, though. "
27 " Money can be armor, if you have it. "
28 " But walls are not a home. No matter how familiar their appearance. "
29 " Women such as we, your mother told you, we feel things strongly and we always have. You need to choose to love, and love, not hate. "
30 " Stories vary, throat to throat, and heart to foolish heart, but mine belongs to me as much as them. So here I am, I will begin again. I will remember. "
― Deirdre Sullivan , Savage Her Reply
31 " I must explain what's left of me to someone. So many things that used to speak and scream now are silent. "
32 " Apart from this: I know that I don't know. That there are things we do and do not choose. We are ourselves, and we are also stories people tell. When we faded from our parent's lives, we must have become a different sort of thing to what we were. An honour or a threat. Or something blurry in between the two. "
33 " People can always find ways to twist customs and traditions to suit their own ends. Those who love power will gather power. And it will never be as warm and trusting as the skin of a sleeping child, but that sort of thing is hard to value when your eyes are fixed upon a crown. "
34 " But, even with events that really happened, with every teller, something tends to change. Hair colour, or the food served at a feast. The number of eyes in your head, the number of scars on your back. The right and the wrong of it. We put ourselves into the tales we tell, and to do that, we must remove a part of someone else. "
35 " It's hard to know how to protect yourself from those you love. "
36 " They will come and take the things you need to keep you safe and tethered to the world. Oh, it will stop your breath and stop your mouth, but not your heart. Your heart will never stop. It will keep hurting and it will keep breathing. "
37 " Innocent creatures may not know precisely why we hurt them, but there is an instinct there to shy away and not to trust as easily again. If it survived, which it may not have done. Not everyone survives the hurts they bear. "
38 " In the stomach, hope and fear are sisters. "
39 " Creation is no small feat, listen I am a person or memory of one. "
40 " Come live in me, you think. Come live here and be loved. Come take your place. And make me sure of mine. "