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He feared not living, feared ceasing to exist - p.193

I’m so intrigued

'To have lived is, as he tells it, reward enough in itself.'

'I just want one lifetime with you, actually, if I can have it. And if I can’t,” he said, exhaling the hesitations of his past, “then I definitely only want one lifetime, because forever without you seems pretty fucking worthless.'

'if you don’t think I could find traces of him through every time and world, you’re wrong.'

'but who I am is the one thing that matters more than everything else.'

'Immortality is empty without you'

“You look like a drowned rat,” he said.
“Lovely.”
“It is,” he promised, smoothing her hair back from her face. “Rats have a certain appeal. Naturally, so do you.”
“My goodness,” Vi drawled, shaking her head. “Win me over, why don’t you.”“I’m trying,” he said.

'No,” Brandt agreed. “There are no others,” he said, in a declarative statement so rare Fox wished he could capture it in his hands; hold a feast in its honor; commit the occasion to stone beneath his feet; “and there never will be.'

“Well rats” followed by “oh balls” a page later is absolute poetry

'Mansplaining,” Tom muttered, rolling his eyes. “So passé.'

LOVING THESE CHARACTERS

'You and your incurable optimism,” he sniffed. “Fucking unbearable.'

I can resonate already ahhaha

Already love Death and Fox