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I craved you like maidens crave the grave, the way death burns for a human touch: inconsolably, unrelentingly, aching for annihilation in your kiss.

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

We've waltzed through a hundred tiny apocalypses, you and I, walked unharmed through the ash of countless crumbling regimes. We feast on the ruin of empires...

136 - the cycle of brutality and tenderness
137 - Like Christ, I had become intimately acquainted with the violence and sins of this world, but I had not come away unblemished. Violence felt like holiness to me now.

Once she'd given him the Nazi salute.
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In the right hip pocket, apparently, he kept a looted Walther PPK, wearing its sharklike leer. My grandfather had never held one before. You could feel the homicide trapped inside it.

Tishar is also on the faves list. She is making good points.

Tyentso is now my favourite.

"I didn't really want to say no," I confessed. "I just don't know how to say yes."

...Kalindra picked up my hand. "Then go with the first one, for now, until you figure out how to do the second. And when you do..." She kissed my finger tips, slow and sweet as if my hand was fragile and precious. "...come find me."

is 29 going to be the anthem for this book

Felicity is such a karen

There's an uncomfortable amount of discussion about how this barely sixteen-year-old kid could be a "Velvet Boy" coming from adult characters, and outright advances.
i just
Choices. They're being made.

Refresh on information about Keys already? Mostly rehash, a little expanded on their position in the gang.

Basically all the layers are keeping immersion at bay.
I, too, have an impulse to justify how first-person narration is happening, but this is A Lot.

Doing a lot of back-tracking and rereading because my mind starts wandering as I ponder some of the writing choices.
This is a written record of one side at a time of a story-telling conversation, annotated by the scribe, who makes in-text commentary to explain the info dumping, but the info-dumping is being made by the speakers... Unless it's been inserted by the scribe.
Also so many colons in the first chapter

Though he'd trusted her with his life countless times, it felt much more frightening to trust her with this shame.