“You did mean it,” I say, my jaw clenched. “Or else you’re a liar. What’s worse, a liar or a monster?”
“Maya is older than the first sin, but she’s got nothing on Reyha, nothing on a life lived calm as deep water.”
― The All-Consuming World
― The All-Consuming World
“The brain, pressed to contain every life experience, knows better than to do so. Instead of retaining every memory, it makes composites, deriving assumptions from repeated examples, and flattens decades into annotated summaries.”
― The All-Consuming World
― The All-Consuming World
“She watches Verdigris from the bed, mouth full of the right words, all of them stillborn.”
― The All-Consuming World
― The All-Consuming World
“Rita flashes a winning smile down at the dog she calls Maya and good mutt that she is, Maya is immediately suffused by joy, chemical opiate of the chronically codependent.”
― The All-Consuming World
― The All-Consuming World
“Aren't you worried we'll take a swing at your favorite person while you're out?’ says Constance with detached ritual. ‘No,’ says Maya, without hesitation, because like Circe, like any witch from any old fairy tale, Rita has them all under her spell, and until someone can kiss the wickedness from Rita's teeth, they'll be her dogs until the world breaks like a heart. ‘Not at all.”
― The All-Consuming World
― The All-Consuming World
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