Nevil A

“We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“Is he nuts?"
"I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'."
"So that would be a yes.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Benny took a steadying breath and let it out slowly.
"Nix, I do understand what you're going through. I'm going through it too."
"It's not the same thing," she said very quietly. An elk poked its head out from behind some sagebrush, studied them for a moment, then bent to eat berries from another bush.
"Then why won't you tell me what it is?"
She glared at him. "Honestly, Benny, sometimes I think you don't even know who I am."
With that she turned and stalked away, her spine as stiff as a board. Benny stood openmouthed until she was almost back to the tree where Chong sat with Eve.
"What the hell was that all about?" he asked the elk.
The elk, being and elk, said nothing.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Flesh & Bone