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21 " An old woman, still beautiful, but bent, softened with time. "
― , Beauty Sleep
22 " A position I couldn't help but notice was ambiguous at best. "
23 " My desire to return home, if it was still home, on my own two feet. The same way I had left it behind. "
24 " Smack of conspiracy "
25 " I had absolutely no idea what I was about to face. I only knew that, for the first time in my life, I would be all alone. "
26 " But it was this very politeness that finally first began to grate upon my nerves, and hen to cause despair to rise up within my throat and threaten to choke me. For, no matter how smooth and correct the words issuing from the courtiers' mouths were, they couldn't quite hide the scorn or laughter in their eyes. And so, on the night of my sixteenth birthday, I saw myself as they saw me for the very first time. "
27 " What I was about to attempt was a thing that only I could do. And I would do it on my own. "
28 " There was no sense in adding to her distress by not taking care of the things she valued. "
29 " For who could deny, literally in the face of so much wonder, that love was the greatest magic of them all? "
30 " As if the years he had spent interpreting signs that no one else could even see had stretched him, pulled him out of focus. "