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81 " Even the thickest blood from the womb could run thin if given the empty space to bleed. "
― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)
82 " This is why we shall not love more than we need to. Death will come for everyone in the end. "
83 " the scientists added their own unique toxins into the mixture, until the drugs were modified into the epitome of addiction. Then the White Flowers would send them back out, take the money in, and life went on. This was not a humanitarian venture. This was a business that made poor lives even poorer and allowed the wealthy to burst at their seams. "
84 " Off with their heads and down with the rich. "
85 " As always, when somebody said not to panic, the first thing one did was panic. "
86 " You give your word. But you have always been a liar. "
87 " Marshall always moved like this—like the world was on the verge of ending and he needed to jam as many movements in as possible. "
88 " She’s too kindhearted for her own good,” Rosalind remarked.“Let her be,” Juliette replied. “Too many kind hearts turn cold every day. "
89 " Benedikt "
90 " The vaccine is both legitimate and not... The Larkspur is essentially picking a choosing who lives and who dies... "
91 " They say Shanghai stands tall like an emperor’s ugly daughter, its streets sprawling in a manner that only the limbs of a snarling princess could manage. It was not born this way. It used to be beautiful. They used to croon over it, examining the lines of its body and humming beneath their breath, nodding and deciding that it was well suited for children. Then this city mutilated itself with a wide, wide grin. "
92 " Benedikt was staring. "
93 " Hoje em dia, Juliette, as pessoas mais perigosas são os homens brancos poderosos que se sentem desprezados. "
94 " Juliette folded her arms. "We stay quiet about the injustice off all this simply because it hurts his feelings? "
95 " Killer. Violent. Ruthless. All those and more—that was who she was now. "
96 " This was her life, this was her city, these were her people, and because she loved them, she had sworn to herself a long time ago that she would do a damn good job of being who she was because she could be no one else. "
97 " She wished she could fill herself up like this. She wished she could press mounds of rich soil into the gaps of her heart, occupying the space until flowers could take root and grow roses. "
98 " If you decided to run, you might as well keep running until you came to the edge of the world. "
99 " How could she bear to think that he had loved her and yet destroyed her anyway? "
100 " This city is filthy and deep in the thrall of unending sin, so saturated with the kiss of decadence that the sky threatens to buckle and and crush all those living vivaciously beneath it in punishment. But no punishment comes - not yet, "