بریده‌های کتاب God of Pain

A feeling I've never felt before spreads through me with suffocating intensity. And it's all because of her. The girl who shouldn't have been part of my plans yet somehow managed to sneak inside. The thought of something happening to her turns me into a feral beast.

and I fell in love at first sight. And believe me, I've never fallen in love at first sight, not even with your father, not even with your brother-since I gradually fell in love with him during the nine months of pregnancy, but you, you're different, baby.

The world might consider him abnormal, but he's been my role model ever since I figured out what a role model means.

"Why do you call me little purple?" "Aren't you obsessed with that color?" "But you aren't." "In my mind you're the personification of that color."

"If you pull that trigger, mark my words, I will follow right after you."

"I...won't be your...downfall...Jer..."

"You don't complete me, you're a part of me. If you go, that's not different than erasing me along with you."

"You're the one I'd fall in love with over and over again. I'd kill your demons for you. If I'm ever reborn, I'd sacrifice myself if it meant I'd get to have you as my son again.”

"You might be able to live without me, but I won't survive a day without you."

"Dance with me." "But you don't dance." "I do with you." "I don't like the rain." "You do for me."

I pledge loyalty to no one. Not even to myself.

No matter how many people surrounded him, I know that, deep down, Eli is as lonely as me. Probably worse.

"Is it true?" "I don't know. You tell me. Do you believe I would hurt you, then save you and your brother?... Do you fucking believe that, Annika?" "No, but I want to hear it from you." "I would never hurt you."

"You're the only one I want. Everyone else is just white noise."

When he opened his eyes again, he saw a giant spider hanging from the ceiling. Or that's what he chose to think of the sight as he crawled and fell down, then crawled again until he collapsed. Turns out the mother planned for them to both die that night, her by hanging, him by gas.