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“I think it’s just easier to call someone crazy than to admit that they could be right. Easier to call someone crazy than to confront the nuance of their circumstance, to accept the callous cruelty that exists in the world we live in, the evil out there that revels in our suffering.”

“That brief public exposure of my vulnerability—of my pain, my confusion, my fear, my grief—will forever overshadow everything I do.”

Does the demon love Clio most bc she can see it “in all hideousness, in all its glorious depravity” and she won’t turn away

“Maybe good intentions don’t actually fucking matter. Only the action. Or the perception of the action.”

Clio trying to figure out what all these revelations mean, especially about her father

“Crazy is quicksand.”

“Everyone in my life wants me to behave in a very specific way that’s beneficial to them, and as soon as I deviate from their expectations, it’s an issue. As soon as I act out of whatever role they cast me in in their lives, it’s somehow my fault.”

Clio

“It takes so much to build an image. It takes next to nothing to destroy one.”

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”

According to Alex’s book, Cici (Clio) says this after exorcism, tells her mom she should have left it alone - it as in the demon?

“I didn’t fall down the stairs. I was pulled. I was being dragged out of my own house.”
- Alex writes