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"This, he thinks, is all humanity is: choosing between inaction and survival, over and over and over."

"“Dean Winchester destroys everything he touches. We might as well give him someone already broken. Someone expendable.”"

"Her smile is soft and sweet—like rotting fruit."

"He boxes Castiel into the corner with his body, all long, lazy lines and irreverence."

"“sometimes it’s hard to ascertain exactly whose side you’re on. Ours, or his.”

“Yours,” Castiel says.

Naomi’s head tilts.

Castiel says, “Ours.”"

"Dean is kaleidoscopic: every time Castiel thinks that he has pinpointed the kind of man that the Michael Sword is, something changes and he is dazzled by the breaking light."

"He stoops to retrieve the tape, and then as he steps over the bird on his way back inside, he points at it, accusatory. “You,” he says firmly, “be more careful, next time.” "

"Castiel understands.

He has not seen much of humanity, but if it is anything like Dean Winchester—brash, rude, loyal to a fault, hesitant and impossibly gentle and kind beyond measure—then Castiel thinks he understands."

"Dean is unbridled, hurricane made flesh, in anger, and Castiel thinks of Michael, then—of the archangel’s cold, storm-calm stoicism—and that even his oldest brother could not wear Dean and deserve the space in his skin."

"“We spent our whole life hunting,” Dean says, with a shrug. “When we weren’t old enough yet, we were sitting on the side-lines watching the mistakes everybody else made and talking about how we’d do it different. How we’d do it better..."