Cara

“Something in Basie shifted. He took the key to his grief and unlocked the shackles. He was done with it. Done being pulled in a thousand different directions until his bones ached. Done wading through each day in a lukewarm haze. Done stopping in his tracks at the first sign of something good. Done holding himself back from actually going somewhere. Absolutely fucking done.”
― Tess Carletta, Kit & Basie

“Some tiny part of you is still with me, Arcady. It cannot be dampened, not through time, or distance, or even worlds.
Even the tiniest spark can be nursed back into a flame.
I make my promise, here and now, on this last sheaf of paper: I will find my way back to you, my one human, and I will do whatever it takes for you to forgive me.
Our story is not finished yet.”
― L. R. Lam

“He wanted memories that were so good, he could only replace them with even better memories, until his mind was just a stockpile of evidence that proved a simple fact: no place in the world could be better than where he was.”
― Tess Carletta, Kit & Basie