“Some people came into the world and never once looked up to see the lives around them – they were so focused on what they wanted, what they needed. No one else mattered to them. They disconnected from sympathy and pity and guilt. Some people came into the world as monsters. I understood that now.”

“Some people came into the world and never once looked up to see the lives around them – they were so focused on what they wanted, what they needed. No one else mattered to them. They disconnected from sympathy and pity and guilt. Some people came into the world as monsters. I understood that now.”

— Alexandra Bracken