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'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

So romantic:

'And I will say, ‘Shane Hollander, will you please marry me so I can become Canadian citizen faster?’'

'He wanted to tell Shane that the closest he felt to home was when he was with him.'

“I have only been in love with one person”

'And he’s been...visiting. He’s...we’re, um...”
What were they, exactly? It occurred to Shane that he and Ilya hadn’t even figured out what label they were comfortable with.
“Lovers,” Ilya offered.
Fuck, way to choose the grossest possible word, Ilya.'

'kept murmuring the same thing in Russian over and over again until he pulled back and translated:“I love you.'

“I do about this.”
“You want that? To be together?”
“I do. So much it terrifies me.'

'I do not want the problem to ever go away.' 🥺