No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
("Cutting for Stone")
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I realized if something happens to him, it happens to me, too. If I love myself, I love him, for we are one. That makes it a risk worth taking for me - it wouldn't be for anyone else, unless they loved him.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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