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“I love you.” Julian spoke without looking at him. He was watching the ceiling fan slice uselessly through the thick air. “I really do. I wish you could tell.”
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“I kill them because they're beautiful, and it's the only way I can keep them.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“If I have to deal with one more person today, I'll fucking kill myself."
Paul almost snapped at him, but he didn't want to explain why the threat made him feel sick. Instead he said, very quietly, "I can leave."
"Don't be dumb," said Julian, "you don't count.”
― These Violent Delights
Paul almost snapped at him, but he didn't want to explain why the threat made him feel sick. Instead he said, very quietly, "I can leave."
"Don't be dumb," said Julian, "you don't count.”
― These Violent Delights
“He wanted to tear through Julian’s skin and map the shapes of liver and lungs, to memorize the path of every artery with his fingertips. He wanted to break Julian’s body open and move inside it alongside him, rib cages interlaced around a single heart.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“He wanted to forget he'd ever yielded to the weakness of wanting anything. He wanted to scrub away any evidence that he existed outside his own head at all—that he was a visible object that anyone else could see and mock and judge.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
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