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I am this wild earth, come for you.

Conor furrowed his forehead. "You're making that up.") (The monster's face went stormy. You dare to question me, boy?)

You looked like a half-literate moron in that letter, like an anti-intellectual jackanapes trying to stampede his way into power with all the finesse of a lovestruck buffalo.

The fact that she was a young female with Noise was enough to stun him for a moment. Human women didn't have it, of course, something that had caused no end of difficulty, given how eager humans were to be outraged about difference.

Eugene turned the key. A sound like a two-story house being shat out the asshole of a zebra ripped through the dashboard.

I watched him, warily. "You have let your devil get away from you." He looked genuinely confused. "To what other purpose is a devil?

But how are you this fine evening? —My arches are falling. —Isn't that the first line of a sonnet?

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.

It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.

Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator

Prior to the introduction of OxyContin, America did not have an opioid crisis. After the introduction of OxyContin, it did.

They're going to regret fucking with a linguist,

When Arthur arrived, he was assigned to R Building, a special ward for "violent women.

Eddie Takesue. Takesue had joined Purdue as director of clinical research in 1975.

the precise origins of the Sacklers' wealth had, for a long time, been more mysterious.

Sacklers' wealth had been accumulated not in the era of the robber barons but in recent decades.

Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up.

I'd heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word "utilize" instead of "use.

With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.

unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

Damn chicken. Come eat your dinner. I'm cold.

Auri," I asked slowly, "are you joking with me?" She looked up and grinned. "Yes I am," she said proudly. "Isn't it wonderful?

I watched her sleep with the calm contentment of a boy who has no idea of how foolish he is, or what unexpected tragedies the following day will bring.