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“I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief.”
“I'm the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that's why my family is still alive.”
“There are a lot of things I want," I say quietly and deliberately. "But I think I will keep what I have.”
“Ghosts are laid to rest when injustices are righted, when their duties are fulfilled. But my mother's duty is to make me happy so long as I live. So there is not rest for her, and no escape for me....”
“He's kissing me and though this is the first time, it feels like recovering a long-forgotten memory. My body seems to say, "Yes, this," and then I'm kissing him back as if I were born to be in his ...”