Double Jeopardy
“Dad said I wouldn't be happy until Shawn was rotting in prison, that I'd come back from Cambridge just to raise hell. I said I didn't want Sean in prison but that some type of intervention was needed.”
Justice/Injustice
“Only I didn't understand where the shame had come from: it wasn't that I hadn't studied in a marble conservatory, or that my father wasn't a diplomat. it wasn't that Dad was half out of his mind, or that mother followed him. He had come from having a father who shoved me toward the chomping Blades of the sheer, instead of pulling me away from them.”
Trauma/Resilience
“To convince myself that there was some dignity in what I plan to do, and surrendering my own perceptions of right and wrong, a reality, of Sanity itself, to earn the love of my parents. for them I believed I could Dawn armor and charge a Giants even if I saw only windmills.”
Tara's Character
“Emily's being bullied, I wrote. she is, mother said. like I was. she is you, I said. She is me. but we know better now. we can rewrite this story”
Fate/Freewill