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1 " Sometimes those dark eyes were as black and forbidding as ebon blades – but sometimes they were the darkness and warmth of a deep and quiet night, looking out over the expanse of the heavens and a vast blackness full of mysteries and stars. Those stars in Seong-Jae’s eyes drew Malcolm to him, now, beckoning him with glimmering hints of emotion and sweetness and breathless unspoken things. "
― Cole McCade , Crescendo (Criminal Intentions #11)
2 " I could’ve used you in my 201 class. Spent an entire semester trying to teach what you just explained in two minutes. "
3 " There is no such thing as a random event, Malcolm. On a micro or macro scale, biological or not. Everything is a matter of cause and effect. Every choice we make, every action we take, is an accumulation of tiny ‘yes or no’ options whose final cumulative outcome determines the course of action. If we cannot understand an action, it is only because we have not yet identified the trigger that predicated it. "
4 " Before he fell as an angel from on high, a thing of ripping and tearing and violence, giving in to the darkness that swallowed him as he tumbled from grace. "
5 " Malcolm sobbed out soundless things again and again, choking them until they crumbled before they could form words so damning they would destroy everything in ways that could never be repaired. "
6 " They were ants, he thought. Ants building up their little hills in synchronicity, driven to create order without even understanding why. Or why, now and then, someone looked down at them, watched them scurry, watched them hide… And then kicked the nest. "