

“I know. What we went through just now was only a taste of what’s coming, especially on the ninth floor. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. We’re going to lose more friends. We’re going to have to do some pretty horrible things just to survive. So I need you to keep that mask on. But one day... One day you’ll find yourself someplace safe and without worries and without everyone watching, and it’ll just fall right off. And it will hurt. You will cry for Firas and Gwen and Yolanda and Brandon and everybody else we’ve lost along the way, and you’ll be glad you had it on the whole time.”
― The Butcher's Masquerade
― The Butcher's Masquerade

“Trauma does that, I thought. It’s an explosion with your heart at the center. It changes everything all at once.”
― The Butcher's Masquerade
― The Butcher's Masquerade
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