I wish -

[She wishes Darling had loved her enough to want her to be a better person, or more of a person, or at all. She chokes on it, looks away. Maybe you just weren't enough to love, Zane told her once. She is - fuller, now, if not full.]

I thought I would never have any consequences. But part of me knew I always did.

[Losing whatever scraps of herself she had accumulated, over and over, every time.

Unlike so many of the people who are protective of Cassel, Mira doesn't hate Shandra. She is wildly jealous, feels young and awkward and stupid in comparison, utterly fails to comprehend her. She is as capable of hating Shandra as she is of hating the pocket universes that make warp engines go.]

I don't know. I want - family. I always did, even when I couldn't know that about myself. I - but everyone I've loved has always been so much better at being a person than me. I wouldn't know how to imagine them better.

Except Helena, maybe, we're almost - she understands not understanding normal things. But she still knows more about being sisters.