2022/083: The Brilliant Death -- Amy Capetta

2022/083: The Brilliant Death -- Amy Capetta

“It’s true that I contain more than one thing,” Cielo said. “And sometimes the balance shifts.”
Understanding rustled through me, soft as leaves. It wasn’t quite the same, but I’d often felt I didn’t fit inside the boundaries of the word girl. It reminded me of a country I could happily visit, but the longer I stayed, the more I knew I couldn’t live there all the time. There were moments when I sorely wished to be free of the confines of this body, the expectations it seemed to carry. [loc. 847]

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