House of Hunger
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It’s impossible not to take from you when you make yourselves so … prone.”
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“We’re broken into submission, by grief and poverty, long before we ever set foot in this House.
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A darkness yawned open before them, the esophagus of the House, spiraling down to its belly, where Marion—like the other girls who’d come before her—would be digested. Consumed.
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“You mutinous little cunt,” said Lisavet, clutching her side, spitting blood with each word. But she was smiling, smiling wide like she was … proud of her.
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Only one of them could leave that House. If this was to end, it had to be with Lisavet’s death.
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Desire is a kind of madness. —CLEO, BLOODMAID OF THE HOUSE OF UMBER
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“You know, Thiago was right. I did love you.” Lisavet’s disembodied voice moved like a wraith through the hothouse. “Perhaps I still do.”
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“Take it,” she said in a blood-garbled whisper. “You’ve won.”
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In the end there are only those who eat and those who bleed. —LISAVET, COUNTESS OF THE HOUSE OF HUNGER
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