I'm my own person, and in that I'm unique. Pain, anguish, those are all just part of the experience. The more you go through, the stronger you become.

And in her life, she found the perfect death, a way to drown out the pain, a way to let go.

Luna pursed her lips. She might be his queen, but he would never be her King. “Kings cherish their queens, not destroy them,” she said before she realized she had said it.

This seems hard now, but it’s this pain that’ll help you keep fighting. Unfortunately, it’s a double-edged sword. Promise me, you won’t let this pain destroy you.

For so long, I kept her on a pedestal," he says, "holding her in the highest regard. I think it was because of how high I raised her, how high we all raised her, that I couldn't see her for what she is. Turns out my admiration only serves the show, the act, the game she's playing with all of us. With the entire Land of Five. Now that I see past it, all of it, it's clear. She's poison masquerading as medicine.

She hadn’t felt any emotion until he touched her, but then she found herself blinking back the tears and forcing herself to say, “It’s okay.” And it was. In a way. She could hardly remember it, but the flashes that stayed with her through the years were painful.

No use in fearing the monsters under your bed when you've become them.

Free will was a hell of a gamble.

Someday she would be able to deal with all the pain that loomed in her heart, but until that day came, she'd have these moments where she would have to absorb it all and wait for the storm to pass.