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41 " We’re taking Montgomery and everyone else who has a human heart beating in their chest,” I said, and left it at that. He didn’t press. “And your father?” “He can stay here and rot with the rest of the animals. "
― Megan Shepherd , The Madman’s Daughter (The Madman’s Daughter, #1)
42 " Ajax "
43 " Montgomery, "
44 " This regression is necessary, Juliet. A fail-safe. When they regress, they lose their dexterity. Everything here—the guns, the cabinets, even the door latches—has been carefully designed to work only for five-fingers. "
45 " my hair falling like a fortune-teller’s veil over my face. "
46 " The human hand,” he said in that steady voice he used for lectures, “is what most separates us from the animals, did you know that? "
47 " monster didn’t obey my father’s rules. It had made it into the compound. It had killed wantonly. It would find us. "
48 " I could feel eyes watching from some dark place. I tried to tell myself I might be mistaken. In the haze of fear, every noise sounded louder. It "
49 " Standing still was safe. I had an overwhelming premonition that if I moved, I’d be dead. "
50 " Maybe we weren’t wicked, but there was something stained, something torn, in the fabric of our beings. "
51 " He’s pretending to fit in, just like I pretend. And he was good at it—better than me. "
52 " I didn’t want him to say he loved me. Because I had recognized a little of myself in him. Too much. And it terrified me. "
53 " The heel of Montgomery’s boot tapped nervously against the floor, as if he knew he was a bad liar. “I can’t say how he’ll take the news at first. He can be unpredictable, but in the end he’ll be glad you came.” He leaned forward, blue eyes simmering. His boot tapped faster. “I’m glad you came. "
54 " The tone in Montgomery’s voice made me stir the water faster, aware of the red creeping up my neck. Lucy would have said something coy. She believed the way to keep a man interested was to make him jealous, but Montgomery wasn’t mine to begin with, and he had no good reason to be jealous of a half-dead castaway, silver buttons or not. "
55 " I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. Montgomery had gotten the flowers. Sometime yesterday he’d picked wild flowers like he used to when we’d visit cousins in the country. "
56 " Despite the gash along his face, there was something undeniably attractive about him. Not handsome in a classic way like Montgomery, but more subtle, deeper, as if his true handsomeness lay in the story behind those bruises and that crumpled photograph. Something to be discovered, slowly, if one was clever enough to decipher it. "
57 " For a moment, he rested his hand on the pitchfork, breath ragged. Strands of hair escaped the ponytail and fell over his eyes, making him look wild, untamed. He’d changed so much from that quiet boy. He’d had to, growing up with monsters as playmates. "
58 " self-consciously stripped to my chemise to let the dress dry next to the fire. "
59 " I’m not a monster, Juliet. I’m everything your father intended. Intelligent. Compassionate. Loyal. But I’ve a darker side. I look human, but the animal flesh still lives inside me. Its bones alongside my bones. Its blood in my veins. "
60 " You said he used human blood to extract the cellular traits to make you human. Whose blood did he use?” Edward shook his head. “I don’t know. I’ve never known.” “What about the animal?” I asked. “He must have started with some kind of creature.” Edward cast a glance at the door, as though remembering the feel of the wild. “It wasn’t just one. He began with a jackal but added cellular traits of others. Heron. Fox. Those are just the ones I know about, but there are more—I can feel them. "