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"Eli rubbed his thumb over the fresh skin of his palm, but Victor was the first to speak, and when he did, it was with an eloquence and composure perfectly befitting the situation. “Holy shit.”"

They poured invisible liquor on the concrete as a gift to earth or God or fate or whatever force had let them have their fun and live to know it had been nothing more than that.

there was a space where pain should have been, but he’d had too much to drink to feel

The moments that define lives aren’t always obvious. They don’t always scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there’s no rope to duck under, no line to cross, no blood pact, no official letter on fancy paper. They aren’t always protracted, heavy with meaning. Between one sip and the next, Victor made the biggest mistake of his life, and it was made of nothing more than one line. Three small words. “I’ll go first.”

“We could be dead,” said Eli. “That’s a risk everyone takes by living.”

“Thirteen,” she lied because she hated being twelve.

“Thirteen,” she lied because she hated being twelve.

"Anger flared through him, but anger was unproductive so he twisted it into pragmatism while he searched for a flaw."

"Victor didn’t want to run while Eli was busy trying to fly."

"too much documented data to make for much of a challenge."

"with such an intense need to know that it hurt."

all the glee of someone off to eat cake, not explore forensic chemistry or mechanical efficacy or whatever she’d picked up as a pet project this time.

and her face was red from track and his was red from her.

they’d had smoothies because it was still ungodly hot out even in September,

Eli saw her, too, and caught her gaze without a word. They were like magnets, thought Victor, each with their own pull.

Victor was out. Victor was free. And Victor was coming for Eli—just as he’d promised he would.

“An argument for the theoretical feasibility of the existence of ExtraOrdinary people, deriving from laws of biology, chemistry, and psychology.”

Max had only earned a murmur, but this time the other students laughed at a level proportionate to Toby’s popularity.

Eliot Cardale—who, Victor had immediately decided, smiled too much—appeared with a suitcase in the hall outside.

she had barely grown an inch since the day she’d died.

He’d just broken out of jail. She’d just been shot.

Mesmo que eu tenha que levá-lo sozinha. Prometo, Cainen. Prometo que você vai para casa.

Mas tenho dores, além da mera dor física. Estou muito longe do meu povo e do meu lar,
Porém, todos os dias sinto que a parte de mim que é Rraey, a parte que realmente sou eu, fica cada vez mais fria e menor. Não vai demorar para que não sobre nada e eu esteja sozinho, absolutamente sozinho. E estarei vivo, mas morto por dentro.

Eu vou ficar bem ou vou morrer. De qualquer forma, vou aproveitar bastante]

4769 07/11/23 [Ele era Forças Especiais de cabo a rabo]

Queria que tivéssemos mais tempo juntos, que eu pudesse tê-lo encontrado como amigo e irmão em vez de ser o que me tornei para você, um recipiente dentro do qual você se derramaria.
4754 07/11/23 Devo minha vida a você, Charles, como também devo minha morte.

Longe de mim impedi-lo de me matar – disse Jared casualmente.

23 Eu te amo! – disse Zoë, do jeito casual que crianças dizem. – Eu também te amo – sussurrou Jared, como faz um pai.
4517 07/11/23 Jared sentiu culpa por se preocupar com uma criancinha quando bilhões de vidas seriam alteradas ou exterminadas, mas não conseguiu evitar. Acima de tudo, procurava uma alternativa em que Zoë sobreviveria.

Mas Obin é notável. Imagine se toda espécie se batizasse com seu maior defeito? Poderíamos chamar nossa espécie de arrogância.