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I will not feel gooey inside, she instructed herself. I won't. And I most certainly will not think about kissing that line. I will go back to thinking about kicking him in the shins.
I would know you anywhere. I would recognize you at the bottom of a mineshaft on a moonless light, if I were deaf and blind.
“Politics,” she said. “It doesn’t make any sense. People do the stupidest shit and you want to scream that it’s against their own interests and you never know if they’re playing some deep game you don’t know about or if they’re really just that stupid. Right now, I think we’re having a war because we’ve already got a war, so we might as well keep it.”
“Do you ever miss?” asked Caliban. “All the time. I missed that last guy.” “You put a dagger in his eye.” “Yes, but I was aiming for the other eye.”
“But I don’t want to be the sensible one,” said the assassin plaintively. “I want to be the one who kills people and gets paid a lot of money.”
She sighed and the tension went out of her body. Caliban held her and thought, There is a person in this world who feels safe in my arms. It felt like grace.
