Chloe-Lee

“I’ll be careful, Zim,” she said. “As careful as I am able.” “Which for a Bassette means hardly safe.” “Dancing around trouble?” “Playing with death.” “Perhaps,” she said. “But if I can play, then it means I am still alive.”
― E.J. Mellow, Song of the Forever Rains

“Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello.”
― Renee Carlino, Before We Were Strangers

“Darius had hated how quickly his heart had beaten in that moment, seeing her there. How it had turned to an aching twist when she’d said his name, the sound like a soft song from her lips.”
― E.J. Mellow, Song of the Forever Rains

“One may be beautiful,” she began, “rich, poor, young, blessed with magic or not, a sinner or virtuous, and the gift of life is still given to us all, just as death comes for us all.”
― E.J. Mellow, Song of the Forever Rains