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“Kiss me, then.' It burst out of him, frantic and feral. 'Kiss me.'
Thomas took Andrew's face in his hands, thumbs tracing his lips as he tilted his head down. Their lips almost touched, Andrew's swollen and crusted with blood, Thomas's warm and soft as a story.
Then he whispered, 'I am real. You are real.'
'Make me believe you,' Andrew said.
And Thomas kissed him, hard and fierce and merciless. All teeth and tongue as he took everything from Andrew and devoured him whole. Andrew's teeth sank into Thomas's lip until the old scab burst open again, and then it was impossible to do anything but breathe as one.
They were catastrophe, exploding.
Thomas pulled back and grabbed Andrew's face, rough and hard. He pressed their foreheads together. 'Do you feel this? I am here and I am here and I am here.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“If you cut open my chest'—Andrew's voice was wrecked—'you'll find a garden of rot where my heart should be.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“He leaves the butterflies bleeding over their wings and descends back to the pits of volcanoes and terror. He plays like it's his last moment on earth. He plays so he feels like crying. And then it's done. Silence.”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“You could cut me open and devour everything that I am. I would let you, I'd ask you to. But I have no idea what it means to you. What I mean to you.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“If he stretches to care about something else – like what the Maestro thinks of him or how he fails at school or what he really wants to do with his life – he’ll be pulled too thin. His skin will part like old paper and the world will see how his skeleton is made of dark wishes and macabre dreams. They’ll know his heart thumps to the beat of the Maestro’s metronome because it’s too scared to do otherwise. But worst? They’ll see the emptiness inside him.”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“I'll write you an entire symphony if you ask.”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“There was something about the way he existed in his own quiet orbit”
― Isabella Skyes, Chasing Fields: Love On The Lines Book 1

“You ever think that nothing ever really matters?” he asked quietly. “We try so hard to leave a mark on the world, but in the end… that’s all we are. A mark. A memory to be forgotten.”
― Isabella Skyes, Chasing Fields: Love On The Lines Book 1

“When I cut you open all I'll find is that we match.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“Everything inside me is in ruins," Thomas said. "For you.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“For a vicious moment, Andrew thought about slipping his fingers into Thomas's cut. Taking hold of his rib and breaking it. Pulling the soft crumbling bone from his chest and sewing it into his own. They'd be forever together, rib against rib, fused in gore and bone and adoration.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“I don't care how dark the world is for you. I'll hold out my hand until you find it, and I won't let go.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“They could be so beautiful to each other. They could be so cruel.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“To cut out his heart was actually such a small thing.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“It hit Andrew then, how Thomas would sacrifice the world for him without even thinking.
How terrible that was.
How part of Andrew's chest caved in relief with knowing it.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“Chocolate is a substance worth existing for”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“Music is nothing unless it fills your soul with colour and passion and dreams”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“Cheerfulness is irritating, but it suits some people. Some people are born for sunlight and orange peel smiles and running on the beach and wild flowers in their hair.

Other people are born for nonexistence.”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“White shouldn't be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn't even be a default.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“I take a sip of my beer, and it's - I mean, it's just astonishingly disgusting. I don't think I was expecting it to taste like ice cream, but holy fucking hell. People lie and get fake IDs and sneak into bars, and for this? I honestly think I'd rather make out with Bieber. The dog. Or Justin.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Who tells you to be quiet all the time?” Laurie’s words are a low, thickened spill of warm honey. “Pain is meant to take up space or else we wouldn’t know how to scream. Fuck making your agony silent to avoid disturbing others. Maybe they should be disturbed.”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn

“All he says, his voice soft and reverent and broken all the way through, is, "God was stronger than me when he made Adam and didn’t fall in love with him.”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn

“There is nothing else to me but the hollow spaces I've carved out for you. I knew I'd cut myself to pieces on you if we ever had the chance to touch, but I wanted to.' His voice unravels, massacred on yearning. 'Let me ruin myself on you.”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn

“He is Icarus with wings of swan feathers, who chose to fly into the sun because it looked like a pretty boy.”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn

“If he could dig fingernails into the sides of Laurie’s face and peel back the mask, he would. He would core him like a pear and throw away the soft, rotted skin until he saw him as he really is: horrible and beautiful and real.”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn

“When a monster sees something else monstruous, he only thinks it pretty.”
― C.G. Drews, You Did Nothing Wrong

“But she has never been so loved as when he wails in the night”
― C.G. Drews, You Did Nothing Wrong

“There is power in being able to make him happy; there is comfort in it. No one else in the world can spin him until he shrieks with laughter like she can.”
― C.G. Drews, You Did Nothing Wrong

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower