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Famine (The Four Horsemen, #3) Famine by Laura Thalassa
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“Famine’s eyes settle on mine for a moment. “Do not read into this.” Oh, I’m planning on reading the entire fucking series of Famine Acting Abnormally Kind and What it Means.”
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“You are a human-shaped headache,” he mutters.”
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“Just because you like honey doesn’t mean you must also like the bee.”
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“Because around you,” he says, “I feel the oddest urge to use my power to create rather than destroy.”
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“You foolish little flower, don’t you know?” he scolds me. “I kill everything. If you leave my side, you will die.” I push uselessly at his shoulders. “Then let me die, damn you!” “No.”
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“The third horseman of the apocalypse is having a mental breakdown right next to me.”
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“I feel … everything,” he finally says. “Every blade of grass, every drop of rain, every centimeter of sunbaked clay. I am the storm that rolls in, I am the wind that carries the bird and the butterfly.”
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“That’s the difference between me and my brothers,” he continues. “We are all meant to ravage the world, but we have our distinctions: War is the most human, Pestilence perhaps next. But even Thanatos—Death—is intimately connected to life. “I am the one least truly alive. I have more in common with wildfires and clouds and mountains than I do anything else. So to be something that lives and breathes is a stifling, unpleasant experience. I am ... trapped in this flesh.”
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“You were made from the earth,” I whisper to her skin, “I can feel the universe moving through you, and yet you are something else unto yourself.”
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“I’m fucking over being forced to fit into roles men have cut out for me.”
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“So don’t act like you invented pain. It’s an insult to the rest of us.”
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“I do so hate following through on threats,” he says.
The liar. He loves that shit.”
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“Only if you put something in my mouth,” I say. “I’m partial to food, but dicks work too.”
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“We wear our garments like masks. Take them off, and you strip a person of their pretenses.”
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“He removes a strip of material from the bottom of his shirt, bringing it up to my shoulder. Famine’s eyes settle on mine for a moment. “Do not read into this.” Oh, I’m planning on reading the entire fucking series of Famine Acting Abnormally Kind and What it Means.”
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“How many more things have I yet to discover about her? There’s an entire world contained beneath that skin of hers, and I hunger to explore it all.”
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“I love you. Maybe more than all of what I am. And I don’t understand why, but I do. I love you.”
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“The Reaper’s lips quirk. “Little flower, don’t you know? I happen to enjoy it when you pee on my boots, and you sing songs off-key, and when I wake up to your atrocious morning breath—you know, you also fart in your sleep.”
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“And you can’t routinely beat someone and pretend to still love them,”
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“If I didn’t know any better, I’d say Famine was a gentleman.
What a disturbing thought.”
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“I’m tired of watching my words and watching my actions. I’m fucking done being careful so that other people don’t have to be.”
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“You mentioned how you were worse than Pestilence and War,” I say, “but what about Death?” Famine holds my gaze for a long minute, then gives me a slight nod, like he’s conceding a point to me. “Nothing is worse than him.”
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“One other inhuman thing about me, flower.” Famine turns his head slightly towards me. “I don’t simply exist, I hunger.”
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“You broke me. And in the process I broke you. And now I fear the only way we will ever be whole again is together, all your jagged edges nestled against mine. I hate that I want that. But I do. I want to be whole with you.”
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“Famine pulls away, his breathing ragged. Why? His eyes seem to ask. Why did you kiss me? My pulse speeds up. Why indeed? Because I like making poor choices, and you look like the worst one yet.”
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“Never, ever fuck with what is mine,”
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“Did you put me here?” I say by way of greeting. He gives me a look. “No, my horse did.”
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“The Reaper sighs dramatically. For an evil motherfucker, he is so over-the-top with the theatrics.”
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“I raise my eyebrows. I’m used to vulgar, degrading comments; I’m not used to … I’m not even sure what sort of insult that was.

Bag of flesh? Bitch please. I know I look good.”
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“And if I run?” I ask. “Your attempts at escape have been even worse than your attempts at murder,” he says, stepping in close.”
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