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‘Why, instead of working at getting over the greatest loss he’d ever known, had Alexei simply collected more people to lose?’

‘What a wild thing, to still be learning new things about your own body, nearly thirty years after you were born with it.’

‘meeting Ben was the most thoroughly decent thing Alexei had ever done’

‘he tried to stare back at Ben with meaning, with assurance. Because he knew now, what it looked like when Ben was scared. And he’d promised to keep Ben safe.’

‘Because it hadn’t just been fun for Alexei. It had been everything.’

“What if I can never grow up?”