“She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.”

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”

“They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.”

“Still, his scars, combined with the serpentine wound now visible without the bandage covering his shoulder, made him all the more dangerous.He was, to me, terrifyingly beautiful.”

“He had a matching bandage on his head. We looked like two idiots who’d decided to have a head-butting competition”

“Please don’t do this—don’t do this to me. If anything happened to you—”He looked at her with surprise. There was already a red stain on the white bandages that wrapped his chest, where his movements had pulled his wound open. “I…”“What?”“I’m not used to you loving me,” he said.”