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1 " A beautiful young clerk might flirt with him as he browsed, but she'd never see what I did. She'd see only his shiny shell, snapped shut to hide a jumble of secondhand parts, ticking not quite as they should, but ticking nonetheless. A bit rusty. A bit erratic, like my heartbeat in the moments before I press his buzzer. "
― Cara McKenna , Curio (Curio, #1)
2 " My soul had the flu. "
3 " I really need to get better at participating in my own fantasies. "
4 " Yes, I would be very honored to corrupt you in whatever ways you like. "
5 " I've never before met anyone whose outside so matched their soul. You could drill clean through Didier and find nothing but layer upon layer of beauty, dark and strange and kind and prurient, but all of it perfectly, utterly pure. "
6 " But back then I was inarguably gawky, and because I knew it would be laughable for me to profess my love for the cutest, most popular boys at my school, I chose to act as though I couldn’t care less about them. That I was above such nonsense. In truth they intimidated me, because they had the power to disappoint and humiliate me, and confirm everything I feared about my own awkwardness. "
7 " His smile was like a door shut on a gale, "
8 " The new knowledge that I wasn’t a natural-born cocksucker only stung the tiniest bit, "
9 " Everything about him made my body ache the way it was designed to, and I felt normal and functional, boring adjectives that are nothing less than magical to me. "
