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Asylum (The Asylum Trilogy, #1) Asylum by Amy Cross
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“When one faces death, one should embrace the darkness and accept that life is over. The difficulty, however, comes in letting go of hope.”
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“Everyone's a monster to someone,”
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“I guess some people don't ever really change. They just learn to be better liars.”
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“A straight line is certainly the quickest way from one point to another, but it's rarely the most interesting.”
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“You've done a good thing," Nurse Winter says. "You should be proud of yourself.”
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“Suddenly something touches my shoulder. I spin around to find a dark shape standing right next to me. For a moment, I'm filled with a sense of panic, but then the figure steps even closer and I realize, with shock, that it's Nurse Winter. She's wearing nothing but a pair of white briefs, and she smiles as she puts her arms around my shoulders. I glance back over at her window, but there's no sign of her now. How the hell did she get over to my room so fast? I turn back to her as she pushes her bare breasts against my chest, presses her crotch against my erect penis, and starts to kiss me. It's”
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“Nurse Winter stares at me, her face looking blank for a moment. "Are you sure?" she asks. "Positive,”
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“Well that's wonderful," she says. "Everyone says that their third night is particularly fun." She stands up straight and starts walking away. "See you later!" she calls back. As I'm”
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“How can it be that everything makes so much sense in my head, but it all falls apart when I start speaking?”
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“Rise up and lift your lips to death," I say, "for it is the sweetest thing you will ever taste.”
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“Sometimes I think those words 'a girl like you' will haunt me for the rest of my life. One mistake. That's all I made. But people don't forgive, and they don't forget. Life goes on, but there'll always be these invisible threads holding me back and tying me to a mistake I made a long time ago.”
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“this headstone. "So which one's you?" I ask. "Are you Alice, or are you Marie?" I pause, giving her a chance to reply, but she doesn't say anything. "Is this what you wanted me to do? You wanted me to help find your grave?" I pause for a moment.”
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“You'll look back on your time at Lakehurst with fond memories," she continues. "You'll never sugarcoat it, of course, but you'll know that this time was well-used. You'll feel confident. You'll be able to accept who you are,”
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“So he just sits up here?" I ask. "This old fucking Nazi just sits up here and waits for what? Death?" "Don't be so insolent," Nurse Winter replies. "This man deserves a certain degree of respect. Don't dismiss him, just because he dared to do the dirty work that the rest of us preferred to ignore.”
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“stare in shocked silence. Another body. I shine my phone straight in the face and see that, like the first body, this one is husk-like, as if it's been mummified. Just as I'm reminding myself not to freak out, I happen to spot something else next to the body, and I shine my phone across and see another corpse. With”
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“wander over and take a closer look at the chair. It's an old wooden contraption, fitted out with lots of wires and sensors, and there are plenty of leather straps that are presumably used to tie patients down. The wires run to the computers, which in turn are hooked up to some older-looking equipment. My medical knowledge is pretty much zero, so I've got no idea what's actually going on down here. Despite my curiosity, I guess this is highly unlikely to be anything to do with the dead body, so I'd better put my curiosity on the backburner while I go and check out the parts of the basement that”
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“If you'll excuse me," Nurse Winter adds, "I must go and attend to some other matters, but I'll be around all day in case you need me. And you must let me know if you get any more information on the poor man's name, or how he died.”
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“The world really is a fucked up place after all.”
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“The world is a fucked-up place,”
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