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PREFACE I’D HAD MORE THAN MY FAIR SHARE OF NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES; it wasn’t something you ever really got used to. It seemed oddly inevitable, though, facing death again. Like I really was marked for disaster. I’d escaped time and time again, but it kept coming back for me. Still, this time was so different from the others. You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers—the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you
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That’s the funny thing about knowing you can’t have something. It makes you desperate.
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment. Orson Scott Card Empire
I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined.
