“From that moment on she insisted she would only read romance, as if love and horror could not go hand-in-hand”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“Never walk alone at night, they tell you, if you're a girl.
And it isn't fair.
Because the night is when the world is quiet.
The night is when the air is clear. The night is wild and welcoming and Alice lets her head fall back, until all she sees is the sky, not black, as it should be, given the time, but a twisting tapestry of blue.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
And it isn't fair.
Because the night is when the world is quiet.
The night is when the air is clear. The night is wild and welcoming and Alice lets her head fall back, until all she sees is the sky, not black, as it should be, given the time, but a twisting tapestry of blue.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“one of those grim reminders that your life is small and the world is big, and even when it feels like it’s falling down, it’s only falling down on you. To everyone else, it’s just going on as usual.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“One can be alone without feeling lonely,” she muses. “One can feel lonely without being alone.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“And here is the awful thing about belief. It is a current, like compulsion. Hard to forge when it goes against your will, but easy enough when it carries you the way you want to go.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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