Alastair

“His expression was gentle until the moment he caught sight of the bruised, deep furrows that years of needles had left on both my arms. He looked away, but not before I saw an expression of revulsion flicker across his handsome face.I folded my arms back in across my chest. I had invited his gaze to force him to admit that I was a wreck of what I had been. Still, the moment he glanced away from me, rejection knifed through me like a deep wound. It was what I had expected-demanded, even—but still it hurt me.”
― Ginn Hale, Wicked Gentlemen

“A stranger could wound you if he slashed at you for a while—that wasn’t a special talent. But just a papercut from the one you loved had the power to eviscerate you. And leave you bleeding on the ground.”
― S.E. Harmon, Cross

“Trying is the first step. The hardest step. Nothing gets done without that.”
― Misha Home

“If not now, then when? Tomorrow isn’t promised, Laurie. If you don’t know that by now, you never will. Sometimes you take what you can, when you can, and fuck the consequences.”
― S.E. Harmon, Cross