Marcella’s Reviews > Vicious > Status Update

"Eli rubbed his thumb over the fresh skin of his palm, but Victor was the first to speak, and when he did, it was with an eloquence and composure perfectly befitting the situation. “Holy shit.”"

They poured invisible liquor on the concrete as a gift to earth or God or fate or whatever force had let them have their fun and live to know it had been nothing more than that.

there was a space where pain should have been, but he’d had too much to drink to feel

The moments that define lives aren’t always obvious. They don’t always scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there’s no rope to duck under, no line to cross, no blood pact, no official letter on fancy paper. They aren’t always protracted, heavy with meaning. Between one sip and the next, Victor made the biggest mistake of his life, and it was made of nothing more than one line. Three small words. “I’ll go first.”

“We could be dead,” said Eli. “That’s a risk everyone takes by living.”

“Thirteen,” she lied because she hated being twelve.

“Thirteen,” she lied because she hated being twelve.

"Anger flared through him, but anger was unproductive so he twisted it into pragmatism while he searched for a flaw."

"Victor didn’t want to run while Eli was busy trying to fly."

"too much documented data to make for much of a challenge."