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41 " our heads full of stars. "
― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance
42 " scrawled on the walls of my mind, "
43 " Ellis quivers too—a very slight tremor to her hands, detectable only because I notice everything about her. "
44 " Ellis is something new, and it feels like she creates and unravels me in the same moment, a sentence she writes and erases and rewrites, a product of her wants and imagination. I feel like she invented me. "
45 " I find myself glancing back, as if to make sure my Eurydice still follows. "
46 " two souls joining on the metaphysical plane while two bodies entwine below. "
47 " When you read about sex in books, it’s always described like a magical event, something sacred enacted through the profane: two souls joining on the metaphysical plane while two bodies entwine below. "
48 " I still feel her fingers tangled up in the threads of my fate. "
49 " I need to be able to touch the dark without being consumed by it. "
50 " to touch the dark "
51 " I wouldn’t want to get burned at the stake as a witch.”“Oh, but can you blame them? You are a witch. I don’t doubt you would have poisoned the village crops, salted their fields, and led their daughters into temptation. "
52 " And up this high, pinned against the eastern face with thin air crystallizing in my lungs, I am the only thing left alive. "