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“When someone can get away with doing evil things, it's scary. When they can get away with doing evil and convince you they aren't in the same breath? That's terrifying.”
― Raven Elliot O'Connor, Reckless Truth

“There was a hole in his chest where his mood should have been, and the darkness was slowly settling in on his brain, or-.. maybe that was dehydration. It was always hard to tell that apart from depression.”
― Raven Elliot O'Connor, Reckless Truth

“You want to know what happened to Josh?â€� he hissed, taking a step forward, and Lydia’s skin prickled with chills â€� despite being shorter than her his gaze and his presence somehow managed to pierce directly into her, demanding attention; demanding respect. “They cut him open. Turned him into the kind of monster you wouldn’t recognise even if you’d known him. Then, when Tori and I escaped from that place, they sent our own squad â€� our family â€� to get us back. Josh was caught in the crossfire. I buried him. He's dead. Your life revolved around him? There, then. Job done. Purpose fulfilled.”
― Raven Elliot O'Connor, Reckless Truth

“Forty, thirty-nine, thirty-eightâ€� The counting was soothing. It gave her mind something to focus on that wasn’t the current situation and right now she needed that. She needed to hold it together.”
― Raven Elliot O'Connor, Reckless Truth

“Elyan couldn’t tear his eyes away from the screen. That was the man from his nightmares; the man who had once haunted his every waking moment. And it was all real. He was real. That should have been a triumph. It should have been the final proof he had always been right about this; that it was never a delusion, that his father was wrong. But it just left his throat dry and his heart pounding, staring at the image like he was sure it should change â€� that he wasn’t actually looking at who he thought he was.”
― Raven Elliot O'Connor, Reckless Truth

“Once he’d started speaking it was like the words had been waiting all these years to find someone who would listen and believe them, spilling from his mouth before he could want to stop them.”
― Raven Elliot O'Connor, Reckless Truth

“I am nobody. I have no family, I have no age. I
live only to serve the Purpose.”
― Raven Elliot O'Connor, Reckless Truth

“I might be an arse but nobody deserves to be drinking double vodka on their own in the middle of the day,â€� he chuckled, but there was a serious concern there that even Lydia could pick up on. Well that was a damn sight different to the stiff-lipped prick he’d been last time they spoke. Eyeing him for a moment longer, she offered up a smirk of her own.

“Tori kick your arse hard enough to knock that stick out of it, then?�

“Ah, I’m not sure,â€� Erik clicked his tongue, tilting his head in mock-thoughtfulness, "Think I’ve still got splinters.”
― Raven Elliot O'Connor, Reckless Truth

“There’s a look people get the first time. Like they’re never gonna sleep again. Even before you told me I knew your brother had seen shit. For a second he looked like someone had handed him a guide book to his own life.â€�

“Why is this important?�

“You can always stop.”
― Raven Elliot O'Connor, Reckless Truth

“Waking up: her first mistake of the day.”
― Raven Elliot O'Connor, Reckless Truth