Roxane Meranto

“I was crying for all of us. There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“You know how diamonds grow, Mick? How they become?' The tears were rolling down his face as he spoke, the words coming like water gushing through breaches in a dam. 'By adding microscopic layers of crystals bit by bit, day by seemingly inconsequential day, over millions of years. It's the sum of all those days that makes them whole. That's how we grow, each experience adding another layer, turning us into the people we become. That's why non of us are the same, even though some of us look like we should be. We might have the same DNA, but we're different people. You've grown differently to me, into the brightest diamond of them all. I've been living in your light all this time.”
― Eoin Dempsey

“For the first time in either of their lives, they were falling in love.”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“What I really want right now is to fuck her mercilessly until her eyes roll up and she’s fuck-stunned from being pounded over and over.”
― Lauren Landish, Dirty Laundry