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This book should be made into a movie solely so I can enjoy the airport-highway race scene. And I want it Fast & Furious style.

“The world was a better place for each one of their absences. But somehow this didn’t matter.

And in the end, blood was just blood.”

“It was too easy to slip back into that despair, to second-guess all my good intentions and see them as nothing but selfishness.”

“It spun out again in her mind, the long ropes of possibilities. So many converging on tomorrow…not enough emerging on the other side.”

“I always tell you what I’m really thinking.”
“You edit.”

“I couldn’t even hit him with my car. That would frighten her.”

“Can’t you see where you’re headed? Can’t you see where you already are? It’s more inevitable than the sun rising tomorrow morning.”

“There are many right ways, and many wrong ways, though, aren’t there?”

“I’d often wished that I could escape the cacophony. That I could be normal[…]But now I felt panicked at the thought. Who would I be without what I could do?”

“There were never any satisfactory answers, or there were, perhaps, too many to be able to glimpse the truth. A mystery is the most seductive of poisons; it intoxicates the soul.”

“In the end, I had not believed her, despite my steadfast promises. In the end, I left her to face that terrible, hungry darkness on her own.”

“Preserved like a rose that had been pressed in a book, all scent vanishing but the shape of the flower remaining.”

“Kevin pointed. ‘You created her!’ Archie smiled, puffed. ‘No, that was done long before me.’ “

“…he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on…”

“Their leader had been wicked, so they had been trained in wickedness.”

“I am weary of the affairs of men. They bring only murder and sorrow…I want not glory but the satisfaction of vengeance.”

Hoa-hoa-hoa season approaches…iykyk

“The Throne Warden protects the king, but who protects the Throne Warden?”

“Sing the song of the ancient stones, and the blood of the beast imbues your bones.”

“I will take you to the heart of Clovenfast. There you will see that it is not such a bad thing to be broken.”

“The world is more terrible and more wonderful than I imagined.”

“But the harder he tried to ignore them, the louder their voices became.”

“Go, boy. Leave us to our mischief.”

“It seems to be a hallmark of the human species: abysmal communication skills.”

“And should you find my body pale and wrecked upon the loamy shale: rejoice, my love, and call me blessed! In death, my love, I loved you best.”