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“They destroy themselves every time they destroy the world. Their past is littered with the unburied bodies of the people they chose never to become.”

“They’d been working for the glory of the cause, working for citizenship in the Impossible City, and they had made her the kind of weapon that could be used to change the world.
The trouble with weapons is that they can be aimed in any direction.”

“He can’t be real, because if he’s real, she’s a monster for what she did to him.”

“You’re late,” she says. It’s not “hello,” but it’s the only thing she feels: he’s late. He’s seventeen minutes and five years late, and she’s been alone too long.”

“Timeline: five minutes too late, thirty seconds from the end of the world.”
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Alright, so you grabbed my attention from the very first line. Love it.