“Wasn't playing with her heart once enough? Hadn't he already torn her into two and left her to the wolves once before?”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“The rich and the foreign, they didn’t truly believe it. To them, this madness sweeping the city was nothing except Chinese nonsense—only to affect the doomed poor, only to touch the believers caught in their tradition. They thought their glistening marble could keep out contagion because the contagion was nothing save the hysteria of savages.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“that when you assume someone cannot speak English right off the bat, they tend to make fun of you.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“And he mourned for her. He didn’t wish to, but he did—he ached with the knowledge that the softness of their youth was gone forever, that the Juliette he remembered was long dead. He ached even more to think that though he was the one who had dealt the killing blow,”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“These days Juliette,” he said, low and warily, “the most dangerous people are the powerful white men who feel as if they have been slighted.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
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