“You did mean it,” I say, my jaw clenched. “Or else you’re a liar. What’s worse, a liar or a monster?”
“Certain ideas are meant for profanation: the concept of other people’s property being sacred for one. But this kind of trauma? No, that’s holy. The past is a reliquary you keep buried unless told otherwise by the person who interred that hurt-stained horror.”
― 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
“Finally, when Maya was so sure that Reyha’s composure is bulletproof, it fissures. It cracks along the bend of her mouth, her forehead. To Maya’s surprise, she experiences no triumph, only an apostate’s abashedness, like she’d defaced a god of small yet precious things.”
― The All-Consuming World
― The All-Consuming World
“Through it all, she holds eye contact like it's a lifeline, although only the devil dead on his throne knows which one of them needs saving more.”
― 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
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