“She had never really seen a pair of eyes like this. It was like standing in the doorway to a dark room, like balancing on a threshold, holding a lantern up and watching how it kissed some things gold and left other things in shadow. It was the kind of dark that hid and held a lot of things. A hot fluid dark, a summer tide pool dark, a wild breathless dark.”
― Crier's War
― Crier's War
“Crier wanted to study her like a map. Draw an easy path between all the specific yet scattered points of her.”
― Crier's War
― Crier's War
“He couldn’t stand to look at the truth, even now. All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“He remembered the way love had burned through him like a flame under glass, grasping outward, devouring what air it had left before it choked.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“If longing is madness, then none of us are sane.”
― Crier's War
― Crier's War
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