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"Because if love doesn't allow change, then what the fuck is that love worth?"

" 'You need to calm down,' Ala says to him, her eyes closed. 'I can't concentrate with you scared like this, it's like you're waterboarding me with hot chocolate.'

'Sorry,' Niko says.

" 'Come on, let's go inside,' she says. 'Mother's in a foul mood, but I'm sure she'll be nicer to you than she was to me.'

'Maybe. Maybe not. We both know it's Kazik she really loves.'

'Come on, I want to see if the shop has Baked Lay's.'

'The entire array of American snack food is in front of you, and you're on a quest for Baked Lay's? They taste like almost nothing.'

'No, they taste both salty and bland, (...) All the comfort of a saltine cracker but with the satisfying snap of a chip.'

'Are the Lay's people paying you to say this? Blink twice if you're being blackmailed.'

" 'I have someone else's perfume all over me, and you don't feel even a little bit jealous. '

(...) 'You want me to be jealous?'

'Can you blame me for being curious what it feels like? (...) I am what I am, after all. '

'Some people would call that a red flag.'

'The fact that I can turn into a deadly monster in an instant should be a much bigger, redder flag.' "

"A man can love a monster, yes. (...) And a man can also kill the things he loves."