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“Maybe if you weren't such a bitch, people would punch you less," James muttered.
"Exactly!" Hollis cried. "I get punched way too often for that to even be considered a viable motive for anything.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“It arrived. The brightness between us.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Brightness Between Us

“From the very start, you had all the power. From the very start, I was in the palm of your hand.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“How familiar was Walt with this? Did his other "rides" tell him? How being possessed didn't feel like being puppeteered from above, or remote-controlled.
That it felt like having someone stand behind you while showing you how to play pool or golf or wheel-throw clay.
Their heat at you back.
Their breath on your neck.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown