I once saw a show about an amputee who lost his leg and still feels it. He actually wakes up at night to scratch his leg as if it’s still there, attached to him. They call it a phantom limb. I would be like that. A phantom draki, tormented with the memory of what I once was. Sophie Jordan
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  1. His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch.
  2. I wish for adventure. I wish to matter. I wish for a home.
  3. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
  4. That's what I wanted. Something to enrich me, to make me feel better about the things in my life that I could never change." - Page 56
  5. He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what I can do after all.
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