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The fact that I have to work now and can’t spend my night finishing this is criminal

‘“Asughara,” he said, and my name sounded like a spring bubbling in his mouth.’

‘He was only human—what else could I expect, realistically? He wanted to pretend he was somehow better than he knew he was, he wasn’t ready to throw himself into sin. Humans find it easier to just lie and lie to themselves.’

‘When you name something, it comes into existence—did you know that? There is strength there, bone-white power injected in a rush, like a trembling drug.’

‘Soren flew to Denmark, but he took her teddy bear, Hershey, with him. If you didn’t know him, you could call that cute, but he was such a thief, you know, he stole and stole and stole. Fucking bastard.’

‘I had arrived, flesh from flesh, true blood from true blood. I was the wilderness under the skin, the skin into a weapon, the weapon over the flesh. I was here. No one would ever touch her again.’

‘He got angry again. The boy was so predictable, so easy to provoke. Human beings are useless like that.’