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101 " Sometimes you can look at a wedding and realize with a certain sense of resignation that any children produced in that marriage will inevitably be fucked up and fucked over. It’s a fact, not a sense of foreboding so much as a grim acceptance that these two people should not—but definitely will—reproduce. Like my parents. "
― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
102 " I got it for her—why not—and watched in amazement as she poured the entire bottle into small dishes and bowls in front of the dead cats and dogs lined up on a couch that would have been hideous under the best of circumstances. “Drink up, my beauties, being dead is no treat, you’ve earned it. "
103 " They had gone unto the wars, trusting to the mild-eyed stars, nightly, from their azure towers, to keep watch above the flowers’ . . . I "
104 " it’s a Greek tragedy, and the Greeks and Shakespeare really love killing people off. "
105 " At night, the creature that was the Garden peeled back its synthetic skin to show the skeleton beneath. "