Kill Switch (Devil's Night #3)

“I thought I was in love. I was a naïve, stupid kid. Do you know what it’s like to think someone loves you and then you find out you were nothing but meat?”

“You’ll have my kids and be my woman and fuck me, because that’s what I want.”

It doesn’t hurt, though. Not at all. It actually feels kind of good, because the annoying sting of the cut is suddenly gone. Just gone. Like a kill switch.

“We want to eat, so we do what we need to in order to be fed,”

“Our life is a series of plans,” she finally said. “Days, weeks, months, years… And then, there are moments. Moments you don’t see coming and you don’t plan, but everything you need, all the things you want to feel, are in that moment.”

You teach your daughter to hide in everyone else’s world,” I shot back, “and I’ll teach mine everyone else exists in hers

animals do insane things when they’re caged for too long.

Because pain in the body quiets the pain in the head. It feels good, like a kill switch for your brain.

Everything she said, I made her say, because we could only feel one pain at a time, and maybe if I could pile on enough dirt, I’d get so buried I wouldn’t be able to think.

ife felt like hell, because we expected it to feel like heaven