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“He didn’t say everything would be okay because it wasn’t — it would never be as it had been. The past had a perfection that the future could never hold.”

“There is an emotion that operates on a register above sherry terror. It lives on a mindless dog-whistle frequency. Its existence is in itself a horrifying discovery: like scanning a shortwave radio in the dead of the night and tuning it to an alien wavelength—a heavy whisper barely climbing above the static, voices muttering in a brutal language that human tongues could never Speak.”