Gavin

“knew you wouldn’t come if I called you, not after last time. What can I say? I’m fucked up.” The addict’s lament—the addict and everyone who knows him.”
― Daniel Polansky, A City Dreaming

“they’ll take good and bad alike to Hell, because there won’t be anyplace but Hell anymore. Not without love. Not without forgiveness.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

“She was tempted by something stronger than her. Adam was tempted by a weaker creature. Or so we are told. If Eve was his inferior, his sin was greater. You can’t have it both ways.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

“The thing about an addict, as anyone who has ever dealt with one knows, is that it becomes impossible to determine where exactly their instinct toward self-destruction becomes intertwined with a desperate need for attention, if they’re running into walls because they want you to help them up or because they’ve come to love the taste of blood.”
― Daniel Polansky, A City Dreaming