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“I am not warm. That is why my sister chose the name Winter for me.”
“No, Gideon says. No guns. The most dangerous weapon you have is your brain. Give someone a gun and they tend to quit using it.”
“No,” Gideon says. “No guns. The most dangerous weapon you have is your brain. Give someone a gun and they tend to quit using it.”
“Rose lived the same life I did, but she doesnt have PTSD. No bad dreams, no missing memories. Sometimes Im jealous that she seems to deal with everything better than I do. But then Ill catch her wi...”
“To us, reality is just raw footage: Unclear. Desultory. Too shocking or not quite shocking enough. Its ironic that making something more real involves making it less real, but Gideon always says pe...”
“Gideon and I sit there in the dark, wordless for a while, only our ragged breaths disturbing the silence. Memories of my sister overwhelm meI see her impish grin as she leans over me at the orphana...”
“I dream of a small room and a man with one eye. Blood seeps like scarlet tears from his empty socket. I turn away and the room becomes a hallway that becomes a stairway that becomes a roof. The win...”
“I cant seem to wipe away the blood. I rub my hands against my nightgown, but traces of the red remain, staining the lines of my palms and the crescents beneath my fingernails. I wipe harder, gather...”
“Rose lived the same life I did, but she doesn’t have PTSD. No bad dreams, no missing memories. Sometimes I’m jealous that she seems to deal with everything better than I do. But then I’ll catch her...”
“I can’t seem to wipe away the blood. I rub my hands against my nightgown, but traces of the red remain, staining the lines of my palms and the crescents beneath my fingernails. I wipe harder, gathe...”
