“Lada had a sense for power--the fine threads that connected everyone around her, the way those threads could be pulled, tightened, wrapped around someone until they cut off the blood supply. Or snapped entirely.”
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“I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow in my bones."
“We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.”
“His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in the ocean that wouldn't catch fire if he dropped a match.”