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‘Blessed Saint Adder, was this man doomed to be present at every humiliating moment of my life?’

‘He grunted. It was the resigned ’well, shit’ grunt. That seemed to pretty well cover the situation.’

Scand had said that any chemistry experiment has three outcomes. “Either what you want happens, nothing happens, or it explodes.”

“Is it safe for me to go back to the barracks, or is something else going to happen as soon as I leave?” –Javier

“Why are you awake at this hour? I thought you were a sensible sort of human.” –Grayling

“Partner in crime?”
He grunted again.
“Co-conspirator?” Grunt. “Fellow victim of circumstance?”

(… Bodies are so marvelously revolting.)

‘Gut feelings aren’t very scientific, but they’re often the result of a lot of observations that you don’t know you’re making, so I want ready to discount mine entirely.’

‘Still, if you find yourself in an upside-down world, all you can do is plow forward and obey the internal logic as best you can.’

‘Morning came on like an unearned hangover.’

…”Are you telling me that you poisoned yourself, then rushed down here in order to save a pet chicken?”
“He’s not a pet. He’s more of a colleague.”
“That’s what you said about the snake.”

#TIL: ‘Chickens can’t vomit.’

“Mirrors are like blood or bones or oak trees. All the magic is in what is done with them.” –Cat

“Your questions are remarkably unoriginal.” –Cat

Chapter 13 is all very “Through The Looking Glass”…

…”calm down.” (I know, I know, this has never in the history of the world calmed anyone down. I said it anyway.’

‘There are truths that you can say, drunk, in the small, gray hours of morning, that you can’t say at any other time.’

‘No, I don’t know why so many important realizations occur when people are in the privy.’

‘The problem with being plump, middle-aged, and a woman was that people expected you to be motherly, as if that was your default state.’

‘Maybe the point of gods and saints is that they can make the monstrous choices that people can’t.’

‘The human body is a strange combination of incredibly fragile and unspeakably tough.’

“Learning just makes you aware of how much there is to learn.” –Scand

“You were the most powerful. Only for the single fact that I hadn’t been born.” - Maeve (Fucking) Sinclair

“Remember our summer at Sinclair Estates, not the winter we are in now.”

‘Divine violence.’

“For once, can’t you just side with me instead of being rational?” –Maeve Sinclair

‘He said it like it was already decided! Like she didn’t have a say. And nothing pissed Maeve Sinclair off more than being told what she was going to do.’

‘After all, isn’t that the duty of a parent? To plant seeds they may never get to cherish as flowers of their own?’

“I’m reading.”
“You’ve read that book before.”
“The second read is always more enlightening than the first.”

‘A reply caught in her throat. The answer was a betrayal she wasn’t ready to voice.’