Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.

I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.

You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.