Lauren DeStefano - Wither (2011)

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None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.

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Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.

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Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

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It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

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She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family.

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My worries always lead to dungeons; I can't imagine a worse thing than to be imprisoned for the rest of one's life, especially with so few years to enjoy what little there is.

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His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.

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I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up

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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.

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She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.

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No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.

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The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

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It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

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I wonder if she has figured out that I'll never love Linden, especially not in the way she does, and that he'll never love anyone the way he loves her. I wonder if she realizes, despite all her efforts to train me, that I can never take her place.

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Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.

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I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.

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For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

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Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage.

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There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

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I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

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There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.

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You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

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A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay.

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Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother's garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

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Before I can process what's happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it onto my finger. Rhine Ashby, he says. My wife.

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I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can't get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That's what you can't get here.

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And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.

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Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.

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In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

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You're insane, you know that? he says. It's the only thing keeping me afloat, I say.

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