War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can…

Laini Taylor
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War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here. She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, We are the beginning.
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