Deliverance

Healing is the hardest thing you'll ever do.' ~Quinn

We walked through the streets with our protectors. We wore our dresses. We gave up our education because that was the price of safety. That was the bargain we made with the devil we knew to escape the devil we didn't.

A muscle in the Commander's jaw jumps, and he levels his fierce glare on Willow. "You have a big mouth." "I need a big mouth to keep up with my big brain.

I'm scarred, inside and out, but I'm also stronger. I've learned how to be a warrior. I've learned that hope rises out of the ashes if I let it.

Thank you for telling me fairy tales, but also for teaching me how to face the battle I'd need to win in real life.

Sometimes the thing you think will fix everything ruins it instead. And sometimes what hurts you has to tear you apart before it makes you stronger.

I don't want to pretend that everything is black and white, that people are either all good or all bad, and that I'm the one best qualified to tell the difference.