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Angels aren’t pretty pictures in old holy books, just like monsters aren’t ugly pictures. It’s all just people, doing hard things or doing bad things. But is all just people, our people.”
an echo of a memory is not the same as a memory, and a memory is not the same as a now,
when you think you’ve been without monsters for so long, sometimes you forget what they look like, what they sound like, no matter how much remembering your education urges you to do.
unpleasant things must be done for unpleasant purposes out of unpleasant necessity.”
she began to dissociate, reality loosening around her like a hammock deconstructing itself, spilling her out into sands of nothingness.
justice rising like a sun over the hill in a loud morning.
Monsters can be anyone,
I am not from this world, little girl, it said, and I am tired of trying to make my ways fit into this one.
Angels could look like many things.” So can monsters.
