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“There had been no pain or death on Lacuna, no suffering. There was only the cycle. His mother had taught her children that an Ezri would never experience death in the way humans understood it, their bodies were only laid to rest, a short respite before they returned in another form to fulfill their timeline. The”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“He hadn’t deserved the sort of love and loyalty Blue had given him without question since they’d been mere boys. Two rebellious kids with only one another to depend on in the whole world. Senseless or wise, they had both been fools in the end.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“He had nothing of his father in him and perhaps when he looked into the mirror, touching his face, wishing his features didn't somewhat resemble what his father hated most, he imagined he would be loved if he were the same as the people around him.”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna

“He closed his eye when Mira ran a thumb lightly across his chin and crimson lips, flinching back a little as she put her face close to his and kissed him softly on the mouth. When she pulled back she was smiling somewhat triumphantly, and her fingers pushed his face away in disgust. “I always wondered if he'd ever kissed you,” Mira muttered thoughtfully, “but you taste just like all the other whores around here. Cheap and used.  He told me he doesn't enjoy that sort of thing.” “Which is why he won't fuck you,” Blue retorted without thinking.”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna

“He was beautiful in a way that pierced the heart. He was beautiful in the way the universe had been made, from darkness and silence into light and song.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“This was too much for the three of them to handle, but he wasn't going to give in so easily. He thought of Blue and of Cade, waiting for him somewhere, counting on him to make his way back to them in one piece.”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna

“Maybe you’re right,” Loki said, his words tentative, “maybe I don’t understand death in the way that humans do,” he caught Blue’s hand in his own, “but I dream of things that tell me… it isn’t the end.”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna

“He had known, but he had never heard those words directed towards him before in any seriousness, not from his own mother, not from anyone who he had ever craved love from, and he realized that they carried an almost unbearably heavy weight.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“It felt like he had lived ten lives since he had first stepped out into the streets, and each life seemed to be more draining than the next. It was a weariness that penetrated his very bones and made him more desperate than ever for the freedom he had once been offered.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“Mikas had told him once that the place had been hit during the bombing of the city years earlier, that the residents had been herded out of the building and into transports like cattle, never to return. Their things had been left strewn about and forgotten, a derelict snapshot of the lives they had left behind.”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna

“I remember kissing you and thinking that you could destroy me if you wanted. I was terrified of losing you. The way you lived, the way you gave yourself away, pieces of yourself night after night, until there was nothing left for me.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“Humans were funny that way, captivated by violence and terror.”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna

“I slept for a lifetime and I dreamt of the moment I would see you again.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“Mikas had always envisioned them together, traveling together, taking on the world together, even when the world pushed them down, they’d be there to help each other up. His relationship with Blue had once seemed eternal, Blue a soothing constant in his life. Seeing Blue here, holding the Mechi’s hand, left a bitter taste in his mouth”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna

“Didn’t anyone ever tell you not to fall in love with broken things?”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“He knew he shouldn't have expected Blue to come home with him after what they'd been through earlier, but it had seemed only natural that Blue would want to stay with Mikas, as he had done most nights in recent memory, even when he'd had a warm apartment to go home to.”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna

“They all knew his reputation, the one where he gave out favors for the right price, and the one where he'd stuck a knife in the last guy that had tried to handle him without his consent.”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna

“Dark as night, his mother had crooned when he had reached his fifth year, her slender hands smoothing his hair away from his forehead gently, hair as deep and dark as the fathomless space between the stars, as ebon as the eyes of their people, sometimes I mistake you for a shadow.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“Hey, don't worry. I'll see you in a few days. Wait for me?” Mikas tugged on his sleeve again playfully, trying his best to pull Blue from his sulking mood. Blue shook his head. He was weary. Weary of feeling helpless as he watched Mikas deal his life away for so little; money, protection, status. Weary of waiting patiently for Mikas to come back to him or to even notice that he'd been waiting for him for years now.              “Of course. That's all I ever do,”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna

“We’ve met before?” Caden murmured and Senka shook his head. They had passed one another in dreams and in lives that Senka could only catch in glimpses, in a remembered smell, or a sudden shiver down his spine as a familiar face glanced his way.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“Blue passed his tongue over his lips, tasting strong liquor, and beneath that something earthy, a trace of himself that had lingered in Ace’s mouth-- a hint of graveyard dirt.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“He had always been her biggest mistake, but at least he had been a very pretty one.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“The sky was gray, always a dismal gray that lightened and darkened as the day wore on. He had never known anything else.”
― A.M. Daily, Lacuna