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“Hard to trust you if you’re going to maim me,”- Paul

“Don’t be boring.”- Julian

They could only stitch themselves
back together if they did something irreversible.

He would have done anything, anything at all, if it meant Julian would
look at him this way a moment longer. The green of his eyes, like white
winter light vectored through the crest of a wave; the ravenous grasping for
evidence that Paul loved him, and the relief and terror at finding it.

“I don’t know what I’d do without you, Pablo. You’re just so sincerely
creepy.”- Julian

He had all but pleaded for it, the precision and scalpel-sharp intimacy of
Julian’s cruelty. He had needed to remember that they were monstrous
together, merciless, twins conjoined at the teeth.

"What a lonely, dreary thing it is to know the truth. What a relief it is that now
neither of us has to be alone in knowing."- Julian

“I kill them because they’re beautiful, and
it’s the only way I can keep them.”

BUTTERFLIES HE'S TALKING ABOUT BUTTERFLIES

"Anticipation was almost indistinguishable from panic. The speed of his
pulse, the tightness in his tendons—the anatomy of it, by any objective
measure, was the same as the anatomy of fear. The difference lay in the
sense of purpose, which reshaped the nervous tension into something
electric."

“I don’t think you’ve ever felt anything that didn’t hurt you,” - Julian