We just have to learn to meet each other halfway okay?

Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.

A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

Sometimes... sometimes keeping alive is too tiring," she whispered, wringing her hands. Before he knew what he was doing, he pressed his lips against her brow. "Don't ever say that. Ever.

He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.