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"It tasted of gristle and salt, flavors foreign to her, so when Agnes swallowed she half expected the meat to come immediately back up and choke her. She would have been humiliated to spit up the masticated food onto her plate. But she need not have feared this; it was her throat’s purpose, too, to swallow."

Yes that's the purpose of a throat

"They felt soft and dull, her teeth, but as she worked the meat in her mouth, one tentative chew at a time, they seemed to sharpen within moments, as if whetted against a stone. This was their very purpose, and they had been deprived of it for so long, like a soldier starved of fight, a monk forbidden from prayer."

Again wtf is this

"Her blue veins were glistening, like rivers under the winter starlight."

I can't with this

"The urge to move closer was so unconscious that it frightened her. It was no foreign emotion, like the sense of beauty, impressed on her by some outside force. It came up from the deepest reaches of her soul, or down from her soul’s greatest heights. It surfaced from these depths like a whale, its great white head breaching the black water, or swooped down like a hawk...."

That's one way to say that she's horny

"If I live here, she thought, I will not live."

Deep

"They did not know that Agnes had tasted the meat of an infant fresh from the womb."

I have no words

"They did not know that the ladies of their house drank from their mothers’ breasts until they were old enough to have breasts of their own. They did not know that they slept nude with their cousins and sisters and mothers until their bodies were too big for a single bed to hold."

👁️👄👁️

"...and the strange slickness at her center—her own arousal, base, anatomical, though it served a different purpose. Should something be thrust inside her, this slickness would ease its path, protect her from the worst of the dragging, scraping agony. She would not be violated in that manner, but neither her mind nor her body knew it yet."

Excuse me what

"It was not as if there were a wall between them, but rather that they were each creatures trapped in ice, and their own husks of cold kept them always at the slenderest distance from each other. She did not know what it would take to crack through. She did not know if she was even brave enough to try."

Ava Reid why are you so extra

"Bile rose in Agnes’s throat, but it was not a thin bile; it was rich, richer than any wine she had ever been allowed to drink. It was steeped in malice, yet the aftertaste was pure pleasure. She could not comprehend this exquisite poison. She fled the room, afraid of what was at work inside her soul."

I can't with this book