Haille

“[...] she screams as if the world didn't exist, she screams as if words had split in two and lost all meaning, she screams as if beneath this hell there was another hell, one from which she didn't want to escape.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“We wanted more of each other and more life. We were adding on a baby to the house of our love. Like a sunroom, but made of wonder and fear and time and denial. It was the future. We pictured ourselves living there. All the imaginary firsts and the world going on as if it weren't already too late.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“Heaven was life, not death. Heaven was a woman holding your head in the crook of her arm and looking down at you. Heaven was a warm hand on your cheek and the smell of soup with garlic on the fire.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

“His brain warns him that there are words that cover up the world. There are words that are convenient, hygienic. Legal.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh