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"She'd pined for the world before with such intensity she'd shoot a child. Even entertained killing herself to keep the 'way it was' remaining 'as it is'. What power. Stronger than one's own reason and instinct, driving one to malformation of the mind, body and even the forfeiture of the colors of the soul. Less a desire for one's survival than that of which none could say they fully understood."

That's gotta be the most striking image of the "rapture"

"Words are magic, see? You say anything often enough and you believe it. Belief is the first step on the path of being."

"Her mother had always called her special. and no matter how often her mother made the claim, not even the successor with which special was uttered, she always heard "special" as "different '