... Where did you go?โ โDown below.โ โUgh,โ she said. โIโve heard theyโre little better than animals.โ Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw. ... I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. โIโm Deuce, animal from the underground.
Ann AguirreYou can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.
Ann AguirreI always have someplace else Iโd rather be, even if I donโt know where that is, yet.
Ann AguirreI imagine the ones weโve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes thatโs terrifying, and sometimes itโs reassuring, a promise of homecoming.
Ann Aguirre