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"With every tightening of the screw, the tyrant makes our hope more precise. And nothing enrages a tyrant more than hope."

"In Mara's experience, the supernatural was purely the presence of good, the love that burns free of the corpse; always love that tries to escape the human terror."

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What is fate? When struggle is the same as surrender.

He would not let her describe it. Each straining word in its inadequancy, a kind of lie. He needed words as uncompromising as numbers, the zero in an equation.

The train hurtling home, eating into the future; its wake of smoke the burning away of possibilities, chances already extinguished. In each direction, torpor lurking behind every action, a draining of momentum in every decision. Fear so tirelessly attached to hope, it was hard to tell the the difference between them.

Certain thoughts comforted him:
Desire permeates everything; nothing human can be cleansed of it.
We can only think about the unknown in terms of the known.
The speed of light cannot reference time.