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love is the best part of any story
” How can I not trust another human completely? We’re family—both part of the brotherhood of extinction.
Why did perfect matches crumble and impossible couples thrive?
There was no equality to the distribution of the planet’s bounteous resources.
It’s just like pain, this pleasure.
Give him an inch and he’ll take a mile.
“After all I’ve seen, if I hadn’t learned compassion, I wouldn’t be worth much.
fear turned into hatred and violence in the human heart.
We both hear a voice in our head, she pointed out. That’s never a good sign.
You haven’t turned on them; you’ve just left their society.”
“But I’m better at lying than you are. I can even lie to myself.”
Even in the most compassionate, humankind’s limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.
Human lives were so impossibly tangled. What a mess.
“Because they don’t work—the bacteria are smarter than your medicines.
Did he realize that I would do exactly that for him? Anything in the world he wanted.
They weren’t comfortable with happiness, but they’re at home with fury.
Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.
