--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: That girl that had needed to be…" description: "\"“That girl that had needed to be protected, who had craved stability and comfort . . . she had died Under the Mountain. I had died, and there had been ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb5/sarah-j-maas-58_acomaf_that-girl-that-had-needed-to-be-protecte_387529.png" --- # That girl that had needed to be protected, who had craved… ![“That girl that had needed to be protected, who had craved stability and comfort . . . she had died Under the Mountain. I had died, and there had been no one to protect me from those horrors before my neck snapped. So I had done it myself. And I would not, could not, yield that part of me that had…” quote by Sarah J. Maas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb5/sarah-j-maas-58_acomaf_that-girl-that-had-needed-to-be-protecte_387529.png) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb5/sarah-j-maas-58_acomaf_that-girl-that-had-needed-to-be-protecte_387529.png) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb5/sarah-j-maas-58_acomaf_that-girl-that-had-needed-to-be-protecte_387529.png) > ““That girl that had needed to be protected, who had craved stability and comfort . . . she had died Under the Mountain. I had died, and there had been no one to protect me from those horrors before my neck snapped. So I had done it myself. And I would not, could not, yield that part of me that had awoken and transformed Under the Mountain.”” [Sarah J. Maas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-j-maas/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. 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