

“The neglected ones, the unlucky ones, the ones who want more than they've been give. The ones who have to crawl and scrape and fight their way up from the very bottom, who have to game a system designed for them to lose. Always the first to be punished and blamed when things go wrong. Always the last to e seen, to be saved.”
― If You Could See the Sun
― If You Could See the Sun
“A child who’s been forced to take on the role of an adult struggles to become one when they’ve actually grown up. Grown-ups like good children who listen. Although those children grow up on the outside, on the inside, they might not.”
― 청춘 블라썸 4
― 청춘 블라썸 4

“Is it really too much to ask? For people like me to want a bit of that light for ourselves?”
― If You Could See the Sun
― If You Could See the Sun
“The tears I’d seen and all of the mysterious things he’d sometimes say were warning signs.”
― 청춘 블라썸 4
― 청춘 블라썸 4
“I lay on my bed fighting back the tears. The horrible unfairness of it! I had done nothing wrong. The dogs were barking again like that annoying dog I had to walk by on my way to school.”
― Empress Theresa
― Empress Theresa
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