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Suns Will Rise (System Divine, #3) QUOTES

Suns Will Rise (System Divine, #3) QUOTES

1 " You don’t…,” she started to say, but a lump was growing in her throat faster
than she could squeeze the words out around it. “You don’t need me.”
Another pause. Another flurry of static. Another painful thump against her
heart.
And then came a voice she’d only ever heard in her dreams.
“I do,” said Marcellus. “I’ve always needed you. From the moment I first saw
you in that morgue. With that giant ripped hood covering your face. With those
impossible gray eyes staring back at me. Don’t you get it, Chatine? You’re the
reason I’m here right now. Something happened to me that day. You happened to
me. You changed everything. You woke me up. You made me see the world for
what it really was. A miserable place that could turn innocent girls like you into
criminals. A rain-soaked planet painted over with fake Sols and a shiny titan gloss.
You pulled it all away from my eyes. And now that I’ve seen that world, I can’t
stop seeing it. I can’t ignore it. I have to do whatever I can to change it. Not for
me. My life was a dreamscape compared to yours. Compared to the lives of all of
these people around me. I have to do it for them. For you.”

Chatine felt her knees giving out. Felt her resolve giving up. She slid down
onto the damp, rocky bluff, while the Secana Sea winds swirled and stabbed and
buffeted against her coat. She sat with the radio clutched to her chest, Marcellus’s
words pouring out of it. Pouring into her. "

― Jessica Brody , Suns Will Rise (System Divine, #3)