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I glimpse the Jackal tucking his silver stylus into his sleeve, the one he spun on his fingers as he proposed our secret alliance.
We lock eyes.
He grimes toothily.
And I know I’ve made a deal with the devil.
-Golden Son
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“So it’s pride.”
“It’s always pride.”
“Pride is just a shout into the wind.”
He shakes his head, voice deepening. “I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have—how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.” He leans forward. “So you see, pride is the only thing.” His eyes leave mine and look across the room. “Pride, and women.”
-Golden Son
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In the news footage that was pirated, they don’t even show Dio. But here, with the raw footage, I can rewind. I do so. I can amplify the sound. I do so. I watch it happen again: My mother hangs her head. Narol spits. Kieran covers the children’s eyes. Feet shuffle. Dio goes up the scaffold. All the sound is magnified. I sort out the white noise with the controls, and I hear what my wife said to Dio.
“In our bedroom, there is a crib I made. Hide it before Darrow returns.”
“A crib….,” Dio murmurs.
“He must never know. It would break him.”
“Don’t say it, Eo. Don’t.”
“I am with child.”
-Golden Son
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“So, I’ve taken what’s yours,” he says, walking closer and nodding to Mustang.
I laugh, “She was never mine. And she’s certainly not yours.”
The white arrives, hustling forward in his robes. Head bald. Back crooked.
“But I’ve had her in ways you haven’t.” His voice lowers so only we might hear, “I wonder, do you lie alone at night, thinking of the pleasures I give her? Does it vex you that I how she kisses? How she sighs when you touch her neck just so?”
I don’t answer.
“That she moans my name instead of yours?” He doesn’t laugh. He loath what he says, but he say anything to hurt me. In most ways, he’s not a bad man. He’s just my bad man. “In fact , she moaned as I went inside her this morning.”
“What would Julian say if he could see you now?” I asked.
“He’d echo mother and beg me to kill you.”
“Or would he weep at the devil you’ve become?”
-Golden Son
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“So do I feel lost? Always. When Lea died at the Institute….” His lips slip gently downward. “…I was in a dark woods, blind and lost as Dante before Virgil. But Quinn helped me. Her voice calling me out of misery. She became my home. As she puts it, ‘Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.’” He grasps the top of my hand. “Find your home, Darrow. It may not be in the past. But find it, and you’ll never be lost again.”
-Golden Son
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“You’ve won, Darrow,” Mustang says quietly, coming around in front of me so her eyes meet mine. The Furies pause outside the circle. “Don’t lose yourself to this.”
I could not imagine Eo watching me from the Vale, in this hell, I’ve lost my faith. Mustang brings it sweeping back. Do may watch me, or she may not. Only one thing is certain. Mustang watches me now, and what I see in her eyes is enough to let my hand fall to my side. It’s then she smiles, as if seeing me again for the first time in years.
-Golden Son
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And I thought the Golds were broken. We’re all just wounded souls stumbling trying to stitch ourselves together, hoping to fill the holes they ripped in us. Eo kept me from this end. Without her, I’d be like them. Lost.
-Darrow Of Lykos
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“You know, I’ve wondered over these last years… I suppose I should have wondered from the start, but you cut such a rare character—it was distracting. But I’ll ask now.” Her bright eyes cut through me, searching, judging. “Are you insane?”
I look over at Cassius. “Are you?”
“Jealousy? That’s ripe.” She leans in with a harsh whisper. “Shame you don’t respect me enough to suppose that I have my own plan. You think I’m here because my aching loins thrust me into Bellona arms. Please. I’m no bitch in heat. I protect my family by any means necessary. Who do you protect but yourself?”
“You betray your family by being with him.” I have no false answer that may parallel the truth. I must suffer being a villain in her eyes. Yet I can not meet them. Cassius is a wicked man.”
-Golden Son
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“What of your sister?” I ask hesitantly, knowing deep down that I have no other options left but this one.
“Do you want to know how she fares?” he asked plainly. “Who shares her bed? I can give you whatever answers you want. My eyes are everywhere.”
“I don’t want that.” I shake my head, trying to banish the dark idea of someone sharing her bed. Of her finding joy in someone else, even if she deserves to.
-Golden Son
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“Distance doesn’t separate people. Silence does.”
— Jeff Hood
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“I am both worse and better than you thought.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
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“He is a piece on her board.” The Jackal leans forward. “But I tire of play pawn to my elders.”
“As do I. Makes me feel like a Pink,” I say.
“Then let us rise together. I the scepter, you the sword.”
“You won’t share. It’s not in your nature.”
“I do what I need to do. No more. No less. And I need a warlord. I’ll be Odysseus. You be Achilles.”
“Achilles dies in the end.”
“Then learn from his mistakes.”
-Golden Son
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“I’m not a poisoner,” he says. “I could poison my father anytime I want, but I don’t. Do you know why?”
“Because you’ve not gotten what you need out of him.”
“And that is?”
“His approval.”
The Jackal watches me through the steam of his bowl. “Quite. I have been offered a great deal of apprenticeships. They offer it to my father’s name, not to me. They despise me because I ate students. But it’s such hypocrisy. What else was I to do? We’re told to win, and I did my best. And they criticized. Act noble, as though they didn’t commit murder themselves. Madness.”
-Golden Son
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“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven?” I ask the reclining man.
“Reaper! Even Milton knew Lucifer was a petty son of a bitch.”
-Golden Son
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Wylan felt his chin lift, that simmering, stubborn feeling overtaking him. "I need to do this. I've never been to my mother's grave. I'm not leaving Kerch without saying goodbye."
"Trust me, you care more than she does."
"How can you say that? Don't you remember your mother and father at all?"
"My mother is Ketterdam. She birthed me in the harbor. And my father is profit. I honor him daily. Be back by nightfall or don't come back at all. Either of you. I need crew, not sentimental nubs."
-Crooked Kingdom
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"The thing about books," she said, "is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of."
-The Lost Bookshop
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Lately I noticed that everybody looks okay until you eventually have a deep conversation with them.
And then, you realise that this is a sad generation of people struggling to survive through smiling faces and pretty pictures.
-Unknown
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