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“Side by side they are twin angels on a headstone, cold and terrible and immutable. They were boys once, he remembers, but they aren't anymore.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“It was a relief and a horror to be known so perfectly”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“I speak into the silence. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice; measure the emptiness by its small sound.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“If, one day, a milky portal had opened up in your bedroom and an older version of yourself had stepped out and told you what you know now, would you have listened?”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
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