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“It is a terrible thing to cause pain to something you love, even if it is for its own good – and a more terrible thing still when you cannot be sure you are doing any good at all.”
― C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

“Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuffed into the mouths of actors who pretended to be enamored. One could only pretend to love in language. True love was a woman sinking up to her elbows in her viscera.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“Weaknesses were a human invention. They called it your weakness if they fantasized about murdering you with it.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“Do little boys ever grow out of being fools, I wonder? Or do they simply grow into something worse?”
― C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny