Famine (The Four Horsemen, #3)
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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. —William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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Instead, I settle into my own seat. “Don’t tell me you’ve never wanted to dip your wick?” When nothing registers on his face, I elaborate. “You know, polish the brass?” No reaction. “Hide the salami?” Nothing. “Do the devil’s dance?”
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Rain leaks from the heavens like blood from an artery.
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“So don’t act like you invented pain. It’s an insult to the rest of us.”
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“I know you think I am all anger,” he says as though he read my mind, “and much of the time, I am—but
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His eyes are steady on mine. “Because you are human and I imagine you like compliments far more than I do. And for whatever insufferable reason I want to give you many.”
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I don’t simply exist, he once said, I hunger.
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all your jagged edges nestled against mine.
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“You were made from the earth,” I whisper to her skin, “I can feel the universe moving through you, and yet you are something else unto yourself.
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“I have felt the earth move, I have felt the grinding of rock as mountains shift and the world changes shape. None of it could prepare me for you.
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The Reaper’s lips quirk. “Little flower, don’t you know? I happen to enjoy it when you pee on my boots, and you sing songs off-key, and when I wake up to your atrocious morning breath—you know, you also fart in your sleep.” Jesus. “This is the worst proposal I have literally ever heard,” I say.