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“A tongue in a bag. Teeth. A room drenched in blood.”

Book:The Kills

Source: The Kills

“A human has seven litres of blood. This they had taught him in the army. Seven litres, which, with an arterial cut will vent a fountain two or three metres, and take three to four minutes to bleed out.”

Book:The Kills

Source: The Kills

“It is doubtful that you could find a full-blooded Cossack who would voluntarily take part in any such activity, as the girl, so to speak. The receiver. I cannot think of one example myself, not one case which involves a full-blooded Cossack. Historically, this is a weakness of the Greeks, the Italians, and of course your own people, who are particularly fond of this vice.”

Receiver Vice Cossack

Book:The Kills

Source: The Kills

“She read the last chapter of her book because she didn’t want to start something that would end badly.”

Book:The Kills

Source: The Kills

“Correggio, Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto. In them she saw distance and cruelty. Bodies pierced, flayed, crucified. A parade of morbid flesh.”

Caravaggio Titian Correggio Tintoretto

Book:The Kills

Source: The Kills