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“Why should I believe Armand?” (510) Excellent question.

“…Count Dracula, who though he can turn himself into a bat or dematerialize at will, nevertheless crawls down the wall of his castle in the manner of a lizard apparently for fun…” (500).

“…Count Dracula, who though he can turn himself into a bat or dematerialize at will, nevertheless crawls down the wall of his castle in the manner of a lizard apparently for fun..” lol

“Thoughts are imprecise,” he said. “If I open my mind to you I cannot really control what you read there. And when I read your mind it is possible for me to misunderstand what I hear or see.”
Said the furtive, pervert daddy vampire.

“I may have a great deal of imagination, but he has almost none.”

“How do I begin? You move like the right hand of God! But for me the world, the real world in which Marius lived, is beyond reach. I never lived in it. I push against the glass. But how do I get in?”

Wow. I would really like to push Nicki off a cliff. It wouldn’t kill him, but at least it would put enough distance between us for me to not have to hear that whiny, self-aggrandizing, punk-ass bitch.

“It was horrifying. But it was also very funny” (203). Armand in a nutshell.

Girl - your hair is what freaks you out in all of this!

I knew this was coming —still so grossed out.

Lurking, unearthly presence… Armand? Is that you babes?

“I wasn’t part of the world that cringed at such things. And with a smile, I realized that I was of that dark ilk that makes others cringe” (98). Same.

“Pray for me!  I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size.  But I bet she done it, just the same—she was just that kind.  She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion—there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.”

“What did I say?”
“That you couldn’t conceive of a life with anyone else [rip Maxwell]?”
It’s strange. I hadn’t remembered speaking them. But they felt true. “I don’t know.” I shrugged. “Is a life of friends not sufficiently rewarding?”
“It can be. But not for you.”

I swear if this slow burn doesn’t come to fruition there will be blood.

“Take the damn book” *cue “Whatta Man” by Salt-N-Pepa*

So many of these name drops were a part of my childhood. This book is wild. I’m obsessed.

“Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileles serenity and lunged in its opposite, without any intermediate condition, so high about us do the waters rise of our own and other people's imperfection.”

Promising

I am more invested than I thought I would be.

I am enjoying this book thus far… please don’t screw with me Murdoch.