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“When the dead men come, we are waiting. We have been waiting so long.

They must have convinced themselves they would never rot in the same dirt we do.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“You’re going to die in your best friend’s arms. And you play along because it’s funny, because it’s written down, you’ve memorized it, it’s all you know. I say the phrases that keep it all going, and everybody plays along.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“You think I’d know art, and not know this?” Icarus said. He pressed closer, still. “There have been men like you before we had words for it.”
― K. Ancrum, Icarus

“If I promise this book has a happy ending, does that make it better? Does that make any of it easier to swallow?”
― Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture