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“Sometime they like to show me how they died. I don't know why, maybe it makes them feel less alone, less isolated. Maybe they just want someone to know, to witness it, so it gives their short life a meaning. Usually they show me and then vanish.”
― Victoria Fulton, Horror Hotel

“This isn’t … it isn’t a trick, is it?” Her voice was smaller than she wanted it to be.

The shadow of something dark moved across Kaz’s face. “If it were a trick, I’d promise you safety. I’d offer you happiness. I don’t know if that exists in the Barrel, but you’ll find none of it with me.”

For some reason, those words had comforted her. Better terrible truths than kind lies.

“All right,” she said. “How do we begin?”

“Let’s start by getting out of here and finding you some proper clothes. Oh, and Inej,” he said as he led her out of the salon, “don’t ever sneak up on me again.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I don't want to escape.

I want to face him.

And then, one by one, the girls he killed begin to show me their faces.”
― Victoria Fulton, Horror Hotel

“How had they possibly kept the spark alive for so many years? Julieta doubted that she would ever know.
The only songs men sang these days were on TikTok. And even those were lip-synched.
Romance was dead.”
― Alana Albertson, Ramón and Julieta