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41 " Elitha couldn’t pretend. She burned with shame. And still the voices crowded her head, whispering terrible things and leaving a deep tunnel of loneliness, as if their words were sharp and physical things hollowing out her center. She was desperate for quiet, for peace, for silence. "
― Alma Katsu , The Hunger
42 " Without Caroline, he had nothing. Without Caroline, he was nothing. Maybe this was the truest definition of love he’d ever experienced. Not the kind he’d experienced with Lillian, the kind that unhinged him, made him wild. But the kind that had the power to anchor and secure him, to make him become the man he ought to have been all along. "
― Alma Katsu , The Deep
43 " You might ask if I loved Jonathan for his beauty, and I would answer: that is a pointless question, for his great, uncommon beauty was an irreducible part of the whole. It gave him his quiet confidence--and his easy, disarming way with the fairer sex. And if his beauty drew my eye from the first, I'll not apologize for it, nor will I apologize for my desire to claim Jonathan for my own. To behold such beauty is to wish to possess it; it's desire that drives every collector. And I was hardly alone. Nearly every person who came to know Jonathan tried to possess him. This was his curse, and the curse of every person who loved him. But it was like being in love with the sun: brilliant and intoxicating to be near, but impossible to keep to oneself. It was hopeless to love him and yet it was hopeless not to. "
― Alma Katsu
44 " He made her think of a storm in summer, and though others might say it was a fool-headed thing to do, she wanted to run out into that storm, to feel its raindrops that, she somehow sensed, would fall gently against her skin. "
45 " It’s disrespectful. A sick indulgence. I beg you, Caroline: let the dead rest in peace. "
46 " We arrived only yesterday and already the cold sea air has seeped into my bones and softened the pages on which I now write. "
― Alma Katsu , The Fervor
47 " woman’s shape under her midnight blue cloak. The cloak had made her invisible in the darkness, but up close he saw that she had golden blonde hair, so luminous that it glowed under the velvet hood. He found her attractive but sensed there was something strange about her, that she was "
― Alma Katsu , The Witch Sisters (The Taker, #2.5)
48 " December 1831 Through the window of his grandfather’s Victorian— "
49 " And love was like forgiveness—deep and patient. It would be waiting for her on the other side. "
50 " Snow had told him that in fact humanity’s entire understanding of disease, our connection of the disease to its symptoms, might be erroneous. Namely, that a disease and its symptoms were not necessarily the same thing. That the disease is something alive but invisible—almost like a spirit, in fact—that then takes hold in the body and causes symptoms, sometimes different symptoms in different people. Sometimes, even, causing no symptoms at all. "
51 " A young boy might be swallowed up in all this vastness, in the unrelenting space that stretched in all directions, in the horizons that yoked even the sun down to heel. "
52 " Snow kept secrets. You’d think you were on solid ground, but it was just a matter of time before the ledge beneath you crumbled. "
53 " but by the time they caught up to her, the teenage girl had already killed the baby and was devouring her liver. "
54 " The group let themselves be divided by pettiness and class differences. They let themselves be fooled by businessmen who valued personal profit over human lives. They selected the wrong man to be their leader and refused to listen to the people among them who knew better. They paid for their hubris, yes, but you only need to look around to realize that things haven’t changed that much today, 170 years later. And this is the true lesson of the Donner Party. "