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21 " I don’t want to be theirs.I don’t want to be anyone’s until I can try on what it’s like to be myself, because all this time, I feel like I haven’t met the real, actual Lilah. The girl I might’ve become if Mom hadn’t thrown me away. "
― Lola Rock , Pack Darling: Part One (Pack Darling, #1)
22 " If I’m a princess, I look like one who’s so far down the line, I’ll only inherit the throne if a plague kills off the entire royal family.I look like I’ve already survived a few plagues, with dark circles under my eyes and too-hollow cheeks and collarbones. "
23 " You never did anything wrong.It’s just a phrase, but I feel like I’ve been waiting my whole life to hear it. From Orion, it’s magic.You never did anything wrong.It soothes the years and years of being hated for existing. The beatings and scorn.You never did anything wrong. "
24 " I scrub and scrub and scrub.The water soaks my arm bandage and I’m pretty sure the nurses are going to ream me because it stings and it’ll probably get infected.Bring on the sepsis.Blood rot would hide my perfume. "
25 " You have to take better care of yourself, Miss Darling.” The doctor calls for a nurse to change my bandages, and his eyes pinch as he works himself into a lecture. “With your history of injuries, you need to make health and nutrition a priority if you’re ever going to resolve your late awakening and hit fertility.”Right. Because my main concern after a gunshot wound should be opening the gates to my baby factory. "
26 " Now they all know just in time to see how hard we’ve fucked up our best chance at happiness.“Star.” Finn crawls to her on his knees. He better get used to the position because we all need to fucking beg. "
27 " She’s our mate.It seems so simple now that I see what she means to Orion. There’s no fight. No fissure.She’s our missing piece. "