DEVIL - Chapter Twenty-Six"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." - Carl Gustav Jung"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man." - Huey P. Newton Mystique did not slept well that night. She was still awake when, two hours after she and Fred had finally gotten Todd back into bed, Azazel let himself into her room. She kept her eyes closed when she heard him come in, feigning sleep. She listened to him undressing in the dark, the soft twin thunks of the heels of his shoes bumpi
DEVIL - Chapter Twenty-Seven"Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you'll finally stop running. At which you'll finally fight back. Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight." - Derrick Jensen"Unless one lives and loves in the trenches it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless." - Audre Lorde The smell of breakfast cooking wafted through the Headquarters of the Brotherhood of Muta
DEVIL - Chapter Twenty-Eight"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these, you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry." - Ernest Hemingway When Mystique returned to the kitchen after leaving Remy behind, it was to an argument. She stood in the doorway, watching Fred yelling at Luke and Mathew. While she was gone most of the others had left the table, and the kitchen was empty except for those three and Todd. "I already told you guys not to call Todd that," Fred