Monstrillio
"One believes the stupidest things in grief."
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up, to wilt, to lose bone, to die, and death is the most boring. I needed to see pieces."
"God chooses who he cares for, and he hadn't chosen us."
"Is it possible to take everything else from Santiago but leave this part behind? Or is drowning every so often essential to being Santiago?"
"Why do you like biting so much? she asks. Feels like something I have to do."