Claire Winter

“Bend me over the Throne and desecrate it with me.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels Before Man

“I feel aged. I feel as if you’ve aged me with your own hands, Michael. Ripened me. Like a red fruit, at the edge of a branch, hanging at its peak. Beautiful — and just about to fall.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels Before Man

“But if I were like God, I’d create a new piece of me every day for you to kiss. I’d remake myself, chasing that mouth.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels Before Man

“He hoped wherever he was going that there'd still be the sun and the moon and the stars. He'd spent a majority of his life with his head turned down. It seemed only fair that eternity would allow him to raise his face toward the sky.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door