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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    You make the hardest decision in your entire life to abandon all you know. To give up on anything left for you here, to let everyone go, to walk out and never return.

    You chose to break the cycle.

    And you don't know if you'll ever get better, but you'll be damned if you don't at least give it a good try.

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    24 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 20

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    When Vi held Powder in her arms for the first time, Mom asked her: "How does it feel to be a big sister?"

    Maybe the answer was in how it felt to stroke her thumb down Powder's cheek, so careful as to not risk hurting her; maybe back somewhere in the moment she laid her head on Mom's growing stomach and heard that first kick and Mom said she was excited to meet her; maybe it was when she was watching Powder get smaller and blurrier as Marcus dragged her out of that alley.

    Vi will never be able to answer. Instead, she's finding answers to a new question: How does it feel to not be one?

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    24 Jan 2025

  3. Public Bookmark *

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    Vi feels like a third party observer of herself. She can see her own mangy, unwashed, snarling, disgusting desperation – so stark and violent against the Topsiders' unsullied joy and easy wealth.

    These people in Topside are so beautiful. But survival is so ugly.

    Oh, Vi realizes. I never stopped thinking they’re better than me.

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    Vi finally finds her way back home – to her sister, to the Undercity, and to herself.

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    12 Jan 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    Instead, Powder asks: "what if I was a monster?"

    It catches her off-guard enough that she opens her eyes. Powder is staring right into them, her own eyes big and blue and scared and full of tears. Vi brushes a lock of hair off her forehead. "You're not. You're my little sister."

    "But what if I turned into one?"

    "I wouldn't let it happen."

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    29 Dec 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 44

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    Vi’s little sister is dead. She does not know how to go on without her; she has never before had to try. 

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    21 Dec 2024