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“It always makes me a little sad when you laugh," Julian went on. "The way it sort of takes you by surprise. I love it, it has that sweet sincerity that's the best part of you, but it still kills me how you never seem to expect it. All I want to do is make you happy, and you're the unhappiest person I've ever met.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

“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.”
― Micah Nemerever

“Paul hated the look of his own bare wrists, with their shining blue veins and the skin stretched
too thin to hold them in place. They reminded him that his body was a thing that could be taken apart.”
― Micah Nemerever, 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.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights