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"I was learning to breathe through the moments where my words were inadequate."

"I was conscious. I had one good arm. I had a gun. And I was fucking furious."

"There was a set to his jaw, an anger I could feel through the silence."

"I had been locked away from the world for three years, but I knew a predator when I saw one."

"Quick as her mind was, her tongue tended to stumble along behind."

"How was it possible for someone to always say the wrong thing? Probability alone should have allowed me to get it right at least some of the time."

"The outside world was bleeding into my sanctuary, dragging with it all the choices and chaos that brought me here in the first place."

"Have you met Margaret? She's a Catholic. Keeps asking to be crucified."

Bloody catholics

"Truth was like soap in here; the harder you held it the more likely it was to slip from your grip."

"If it was an escape there would be nothing to catch me when I fell."