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You can’t blame this sophisticated, civilized man for not having the same instincts as a wild dog.
We could devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental, but most of us don’t. And neither did I.
WE COULD DEVOTE our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental. But most of us don’t, and I didn’t either.
She put her arms around me and pulled me tight against her. Our ribs crushed together and our hipbones slammed and she pulled me tighter until I couldn’t breathe, I was choking, and my spine met hers, vertebrae against vertebrae.
when it ran out, in mid-November, I went back to the same drugstore and stole another tube.
Ed didn’t believe that just because something was alive, that meant you had to love it.
It wasn’t until months later that I would look back and realize that, most likely, I had killed the magazine dealer myself.
But the most important thing is that you never, ever give in. You give even an inch, she’ll take a hundred miles.”
By now the most shocking truth wasn’t that there were more like her and me, or that her ability to manipulate me was growing so rapidly—it was that, previously, I had been so stupid as to think I had any understanding of the universe at all.
“I never made you do anything,” she said. “I only let you do what you wanted. I told you, Amanda, I can’t have fun without you.”
