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I can't and won't explain on this fucked up internet why this wrecked me, but damn, it did wreck me. In a beautiful, heartbreaking way.

The touch of his fingers, even through the gauze, sent a warm shudder through her body. ‘Too much suffering,’ she said.

‘Suffering’s not something you can measure. There’s no quota or upper limit. It’s just there.’

‘No lectures,’ Jennie said, and gasped in pain. ‘No goddamn lectures.’

Slightly annoyed at Pollack for writing such a cool little lesbian-coded cop in a very swanky suit with public and tender displays of affection towards her healer work partner who is a guy and wearing a dress. For something published in 1988, this has surprising levels of gender presentation fuckery and I dig it.

Really enjoying all the double meanings of words - at first I thought Tellers were like bank tellers -, then The Agency and agency, and ofc, who can forget hooker and hooker??