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“when the years accumulated and exposed ewan’s cracks, i covered them in gold and bronze. that’s what you do for the idols you make… so maybe he made me suffer, but how much can flesh really hurt spirit? who do you think will be bruised more in the end?”

what the fuck man

“it is only a fool who does not know that freedom is paid for in old clotted blood, in fresh readings of it, in renewed scarifications. if saachi did not know this before, then being a god’s surrogate surely taught it to her. such lessons are never easy”

“the first madness was that we were born, that they stuffed a god into a bag of skin”

“this is all, ultimately, a litany of madness-the colours of it, the sounds it makes in heavy nights… think of brief insanities that are in you, not just the ones that blossomed as you grew into taller, more sinful versions of yourself, but the ones you were born with, tucked behind your liver. take us, for instance”

“we were at once old and newborn. we were her and yet not. we were not conscious but we were alive- in fact, the main problem was that we were a distinct ‘we’ instead of being fully and just ‘her’”