After a year of tiptoeing through our lives, trying not to set off memories like landmines.
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Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.
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Everything is valuable, in its own way. Everything is full of history.
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The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there's no rope to duck under, no line to cross, no blood pact, no official letter on fancy paper. They aren't always protracted, heavy with meaning. Between one sip and the next, Victor made the biggest mistake of his life, and it was made of nothing more than one line. Three small words.
"I'll go first.
It was like cooking, not baking. Baking took a sense of order. Cooking took a flare, a little art, a little luck. This kind of cooking took a lot of luck.
Victoria E. SchwabVictor was naturally quiet, but even more so under pressure, which gave his peers the distinct impression he knew what he was doing, even when he didn't.
Victoria E. SchwabIf Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain?
He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the couch, and decided he could live with that.
Like everything was real, but nothing mattered.
Victoria E. SchwabThe absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.
Victoria E. SchwabIf he'd had to judge based on the two of them, then ExtraOrdinaries were damaged, to say the least. But these words people threw around--humans, monsters, heroes, villains--to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics.
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