Haille

“They stand in each other’s arms, already naked and so alive. They glow in the dark like the white flowers, like allegorical statues in a midnight garden. Youth. Love. Stupidity. Lust.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“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

“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

“How many hearts need to be stored in boxes for the pain to be transformed into something else? But the pain, he intuits, is the only thing that keeps him breathing. Without the sadness, he has nothing left.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh