lushcola:“Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I
lushcola:“Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you.” - (Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente) -- source link
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