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I’m actually in Venice as I am reading this book, and it has me constantly thinking about Armand. What would he think on a speedboat ride around Lido island? What would he think of the tourists? What would he think of the Italian language changing throughout his centuries away from the country?

This chapter was rough, but I’m always fascinated (pun intended) about Armand’s past.
Andrei my Slavic king.

“Marius, for the love of God!”

“He sat at the table still, Christ of the Last Supper, with his neatly parted hair, shining face”

“Please, Master, I can’t endure this,’ I said.
Then, how will you endure eternity my child?”

“His vagrant blond curls were plastered to his forehead by the sweat that rose in him, and I saw it was a fine sheen of blood.”

“I went upstairs and heaved the battle-axe at the door.”

“I wanted to bawl. I wanted to say, ‘I love only you’. Instead I said ‘I detest you.”

“It’s going to be a pleasure to whip you’, he said smiling sweetly, his eyes almost innocent.”

“Master if I offended, hit me, beat me, do anything to me but don’t turn away.”

This is not an equal power dynamic, no matter what Marius claims.

“Turning my head from right to left, he pressed his half formed kisses with a dainty hunger to the inner shells of my ears.”

“I was too young for a wet pleasure.”

“This is Heaven, Amadeo.’ He said to me. “Whatever the past has hammered into your soul, let it go.”

“It was a lie of Venice, a lie of the West, a lie of the Devil himself.”

Something tells me these chapters will be the end of me

“You think I'm a doll, don't you? You think I'm cute and made of poured wax, and you'll stay as long as I stay."

"Everyone wants you," he said.

“Everyone would ravage a guilty cunning child! Kids make better food than women, and girls are all too much like women, but young boys? They're not like men, are they?"

Just finished chapter one and it’s heartbreaking so far