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“Rock glanced back past the playground toward the sagging sun. There was still an hour or so of daylight left.

“No. I’m gonna do something—”

Rock coughed up more blood. He used his forearm to wipe his lips, but his arm was so bloody, that it only made his face more of a mess.

“I’m gonna do something I never got to do before.”

The tears gushed from Molly’s eyes. She didn’t want to ask him. She didn’t want to hear or see anything else that hurt. Her jaw chattered as she barely got the question out.

“What’s that?”

Rock looked away from the picturesque area and locked his eyes with Molly’s.

“Play.”
― Aron Beuaregard

“Information isn’t always power. Information can do harm just as easily as ignorance.”
― Nick Cutter, The Troop

“Come on, cocksucker—” Hogg glanced at me again. Then a frown tried to fight its way in among the lines in his three-day stubble, into the lines around his close, green eyes. But a bigger smile kept it out. “Hey … is everything all right?” He looked at the road. “What’s the matter?”

I turned to watch the fleeing trees. “Nothin’.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Hogg

“Scars are like book covers. They hint at a story. We know the story is there, but we are the authors, and we tell it.”
― Cara Dee, Their Boy