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‘I intend to experiment with unseriousness.’

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“I’m glad I met you”

Oh, so I will finish reading this book through tears.

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“This is easier,” Yiso said. “I can’t keep it up forever, though. In the end I’ll have to sleep.”

crying. crying over this.

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‘She thought about Ursa, who would be safe now. About Ally, her nephew, whom she would never meet in this lifetime.’

this is so unfair

‘What a waste it was, what a terrible waste, to take a person who dreamed cities and gardens and enormous shining skies and teach him that the only answer to an unanswerable suffering was slaughter.’

"Yeah, yeah, I'm a big stupid grunt, I don't get it, here's a nice lower patch and don't ask me anything personal," Mags said.
"But for once in your life can you not be an enormous jerk about everything. We're your friends. Talk to us. What did you do?”

‘Cleo pulled off the shiny pink ribbon she was wearing and used it to tie his wrists together’


!!! as she should

“Yingli, have you gone mad?”
“No, I think I’ve gone sane”

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“Sleep well?” Kyr repeated. Suddenly, weirdly, she was trying not to smile.

Avi looked relieved. “On second thoughts, fuck off and die.”

“Even if we get away. We’re still trapped here, you know that, don’t you? We’re here forever, you and me.”