You fuck - you ate my cat!
Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood.
“The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.”
“Anna's eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come closer. New knowledge fills up the air between us and neither of us wa...”
“You make me want things that I can't have.”
“Girls, on the other hand, have always come easy. I don't know why that is, exactly. Maybe it's the outsider vibe and a well-placed brooding look. Maybe it's something I think I see sometimes in the...”
“Youre sure you didnt leave? Didnt try to explore Thunder Bay again, maybe go down to the park and, I dont know, dismember some poor jogger?”
“The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.”
“Okay, so we know that someone at your place of work hacked into this laptop. That's what we know, that's all we know; let's not jump to conclusions...yet." "Unless...it's backward...”
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”
“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”
“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”
“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”