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“Can the Dark Ages’ doctors be blamed for their methods? The bloodletting, the leaches, the holes in skulls? They were feeling their way blind, grasping at mysteries in a world without science, but the plague was upon them; they had to do something. When our turn came, it was no different. Despite all our technology and enlightenment… it was no different. We were just as blind and just as desperate.”

“It frustrates and fascinates me that we’ll never know for sure, that despite the best effort of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we’ll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.”

“What happened to the world was gradual… A smoldering dread that never really caught fire until there wasn’t much left to burn. Each sequential step surprised us. Then one day we woke up, and everything was gone.”

“Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I’m drowning in ellipses.”

"We will fight the curse and break it. We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it."

""This is the plague. This is the curse. So potent now, so deeply rooted and ravenous for souls, no longer content to wait for death. Now reaching out and simply taking what it wants."
But a decision has been made today. We will not be robbed. We will cling tight to what we have, no matter how hard the curse pulls. We will fight it."

""What do we do?" She pleads... "What do we have left?"
I have no answer for her. But I look into her face, her pale cheeks, her red lips bright with life and tender as an infant's, and I understand that I love her. And if she is everything, maybe that's answer enough."

"Just... ate," M says, frowning at me a little. "Two days... ago."
I grab my stomach again. "Feel empty. Feel... dead."
He nods. "Marr...iage."