sydney

“I wish our story could have had another ending.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“The summer air hugs me and I walk down dark roads without sidewalks and flat land that challenges the stars as both stretch out before me. When I was little I would walk and time the sound of my steps to the beats of my heart. It seems a habit I haven't outgrown. The sky here is the same one in California, but I feel like all these stars know me. They watched me as I grew tall enough to try to reach them. And they saw every single one of my heartbreaks bleed against the dirt here.”
― Kristin Dwyer, Some Mistakes Were Made

“Ballads never end happily, everyone knows that.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“We were constellations of misery pressed into a dark and desolate canvas. I had forgotten that the stars were still beautiful. I had forgotten that so were we.”
― Rocky Callen, A Breath Too Late