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1 " It's not who I want to be. I want to be soft, and I don't want to take shit from any-one. "
― Zoe Hana Mikuta , Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)
2 " But of course there are no Gods here, good or bad, protective or vicious. There are only brutal people and their brutal toys, preying on those lacking in their own brutality. "
3 " I could hate you, but it would kill me, and that is not how I am dying for you. "
4 " I do not feel it. I watch the ink bloom across my skin, guided by her careful hand, watch the little line form between her brows as she concentrates, and the others dancing around us, and the night leaned up against a window, and please remember it like this, just like this. The good part. This part is so fucking good. "
5 " The whole world can rot.' Eris whispers. 'Let's just sit here and watch it happen. "
6 " You do not get to love someone and think they won’t feel it. "
7 " Because you choose sides in war and I chose the one that makes me feel human, and this I will not apologize for. "
8 " Where is she?” I say, again, because we save each other, and I need to be saved. "
9 " She’s just a kid but was never allowed to be, and I know how that can mess with you "
10 " But you would do it for me, For everyone else. You do not get to be alone in that, Eris; you do not get to save people without them doing same for you. "
11 " I was my only possession, and I gave that up.' I frown, eyeing her up and down. 'You look like you're all here to me. Right where you're supposed to be. "
12 " It makes sense that, when the times were desperate enough, when the people were frenzied enough, at a certain point we went past praying to deities and started to build them instead "
13 " You do not get to be alone with that, Eris; you do not get to save people without them doing the same for you.' Her gaze burns into mine; I try to look away, and her hand close against my jaw, forcing me still under the soft weight of her fingertips, and then she whispers, with a quiet, jagged kind of ache, 'You do not get to love someone and think they won't feel it. "
14 " Oh I see what's happening to me, I think to myself, her curls against my jaw. Oh, okay. Oh shit. "
15 " But for now, I have wings, and my fingers scrape the open sky. "
16 " I cannot choose what I have been made into, but I can choose what to do next. "
17 " Just another kid. Just like me. It's laughable and heartbreaking, and it makes me ache for the end of this time, this age of children inheriting wars. 'Could we just stop?' I want to ask. 'Could you want to act your age and unmake this brutality within you? Could you know we are too young to feel so cruel'? "
18 " beaming with a smile that could crack the cruelest of storms apart. "
19 " And … try to not think worse of me.” In my pocket, my forefinger curls into the crook of my thumb. There is so much heat in my face that it is a tangible weight. “Worse than you already do. "
20 " All that glorious destruction at her fingertips. "
