“Let me be clear,” I said, my voice like a whip. “I will choose her over every one of you.”
“I nodded. “Judge, I have no interest in killing you, though it wouldn’t make my lot any worse, would it? I can’t feed your fantasy that you’re a good, kind master. No matter how gentle you were when you applied the whip, no matter how much compassion you showed when you raped. So, you dispensed fewer lashes when you punished. You often let us rest when temperatures soared.”
― James
― James
“Elm looked up into the night sky. Held Ione Hawthorn close. He knew, in all the rotten, broken pieces of himself, that everything in his life had led to that moment, as if written in the lines of the trees. A crooked, wonderful circle, with his name in the heart of it.”
― Two Twisted Crowns
― Two Twisted Crowns
“I am James.” “James what?” “Just James.”
― James
― James
“Who the hell are you?” he asked. He pointed his gun at me. I pointed my pistol at him. “I am the angel of death, come to offer sweet justice in the night,” I said. “I am a sign. I am your future. I am James.” I pulled back the hammer on my pistol.”
― James
― James
“Being a friend isn’t being on your side. It’s about letting you know when you fucked up.”
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― B.A.E: Before Anyone Else
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