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“Under everything is happiness so deep and rich it’s like dark wet earth. I don’t know what it means. I don’t know why it’s there. But I could reach out and grab a fistful of it.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“My heart was so light I could have flown. The memory of it takes my breath away. I didn’t know happiness was that simple.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,” he said. “Because it is an enemy to thee.”

The balcony scene. Too mistrustful to guess at the meaning, I said, “Don’t do that, James, please—right now can we just be ourselves?”

He crouched down, lifted the mangled script from the floor. “I’m sorry,” he said. “It’s easier now to be Romeo, or Macbeth, or Brutus, or Edmund. Someone else.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“May your darkness be quiet and the light come sooner than you need,”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding