Crina

“What’d he say?” she asked.
“He kissed me.”
She whistled. “Gotta like his style, girl.”
― Tiffany Snow, Point of No Return

“Sooner or later, you’ll choose,” he whispered. “You’ll want one of us more than you don’t want to hurt the other. And you’ll choose. I want to be the one you can’t live without.”
― Tiffany Snow, Point of No Return

“Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider’s ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“I never knew who and what I could be, until I met you. You see the very heart of me.”
― Tiffany Snow, Point of No Return