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She had been mounted on a crossbar like a hideous trophy, her arms held at the wrists and her legs at the ankles with twists of common barbed wire, seventy cents a yard at any hardware store in Nebraska. Her eyes had been ripped out. The
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“Something about a girl being strangled to death on her 13th birthday seems so on brand for Chucky.”
― Damned
― Damned
“Bunny, for all his appearance of amiable, callous stability, was actually a wildly erratic character. There were any number of reasons for this, but primary among them was his complete inability to think about anything before he did it. He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up no obstacles so large that they could not be plowed over with sheer force of momentum.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“He was quiet for a moment. 'We don't run much to looks in my family, you know, all knuckles and cheekbones and beaky noses,' he said. 'Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“We had not spoken about the incident in my room several nights before and, in the drowsy silence of the car, I felt the need to make things plain.
'You know, Francis,' I said.
'What?'
It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it.
'You know,' I said, 'I'm really not attracted to you. I mean, not that-'
'Isn't that interesting,' he said coolly. 'I'm really not attracted to you, either.'
'But-'
'You were there.'
We drove the rest of the way to school in a not very comfortable silence.”
― The Secret History
'You know, Francis,' I said.
'What?'
It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it.
'You know,' I said, 'I'm really not attracted to you. I mean, not that-'
'Isn't that interesting,' he said coolly. 'I'm really not attracted to you, either.'
'But-'
'You were there.'
We drove the rest of the way to school in a not very comfortable silence.”
― The Secret History
“And another important fact was this-I was not seeking all of her. Her entire being wouldn't fit, perhaps, in the small box I possessed now. I was no longer a seventeen-year-old boy. Back then, I had all the time in the world. But not now. The time I have now, and the ways I can use it, have become so limited. What I sought now was the gentle warmth that lay inside, beneath her defensive wall. And the rhythmic beat of the heart that lay pulsing beneath.
At this point was I asking for too little? Or too much?”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
At this point was I asking for too little? Or too much?”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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