Kaiwei

“My greatest weakness has always been my desire for love. It is a yawning chasm within me, and the more that I reach for it, the more easily I am tricked. I am a walking bruise, an open sore. If Oak is masked, I am a face with all the skin ripped off. Over and over, I have told myself that I need to guard against my own yearnings, but that hasn’t worked.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“I like to keep people where I understand them. I typically choose to do that through charm. Keep them happy with you, but keep it surface level. Keep them just far enough so they stay in focus and I can see every move before it comes. Too close and they blur, too many things are easy to miss. When someone’s arms are wrapped around you it’s easy to miss the knife in their hands.”
― Tarah Dewitt, The Co-op

“Because when I’m not what works for people at that time in their lives, when I’m not a convenient version of me, I always manage to lose them.”
― Tarah Dewitt, The Co-op

“Me with my phony charm and bad temper and her with her worse temper and cruel-toned apathy. I wonder if there’s some comfort to be had in being able to show those sides to someone and have them still stick around the way that we are,”
― Tarah Dewitt, The Co-op