" Auden wrote that when the boy falls from the sky after calamity after calamity, he still has a future somewhere and that there’s no point in dwelling on one’s loss. But did he suffer this? Would he have written that if he had lived my life?

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Reed Royal has broken me. I’ve fallen from the sky and I’m not sure I can get up. Not this time. "

― Erin Watt , Paper Princess (The Royals, #1)