(re)read in 2018. all for the game by nora sakavic
hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it.
Andrew Minyard didn’t look like much in person, blonde and five feet even, but Neil knew better. Andrew was the Foxes’ freshman goalkeeper and their deadliest investment. Most of the Foxes were self-destructive, whereas Andrew seemed keen on collateral damage.
“neil was much better at instigating fights than winning them” lmao no shit, boy went to the monsters’ room, yelled ‘fuck you cripple’ at kevin and then zoomed tf out of the room the moment kevin got out of his chair
the signs as quotes from the foxhole court series
aries: “fight because you don’t know how to die quietly. win because you don’t know how to lose.”
taurus: “trying to remember fear, or trying to remember how to feel anything at all?”
gemini: “oh neil, unpredictable as he is unreal.”
cancer: “who said ‘please’ that made you hate the word so much?” “I did.”
leo: “let him be king, most coveted, most protected. […] whatever. me? I’m going to be the deadliest piece on the board.” “queen.”
virgo: “it sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.”
libra: “it’s not the world that’s cruel, it’s the people in it.”
scorpio: “honesty suited andrew because he was an instigator at heart and his opinions were often unpopular.”
sagittarius: “hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it.”
capricorn: “I am a bad person trying very hard to be a good person.”
aquarius: “remember this feeling. this is the moment you stop being the rabbit.”
pisces: “I’m not a hallucination.” “you are a pipe dream.“
palmetto state foxes: renee walker / #9 goalkeeper
She’d put her faith in mankind and her christian piety on hold and show him how to cut a man open throat to groin if he asked her to.
“I hate you.”
“Nine percent of the time you don’t.”
“Nine percent of the time I don’t want to kill you. I always hate you.”
“Every time you say that I believe you a little less.”
“No one asked you.” With that, Andrew caught Neil’s face in his hands and leaned in.