War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here." She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, "We are the beginning.
Laini TaylorHe wanted to tell her that everything he had done he had done because he was broken, because watching her die had destroyed him, but there was no way to say it that didnโt sound like he was trying to pin the blame outside himself
Laini TaylorTo a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.
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