hailey marie

“He leaned forward suddenly, moved his knees so they parted mine. “Come over,” he said. “I want to suffer you.”
― Holly Brickley, Deep Cuts

“Sam doesn't do anything, doesn't say anything-it's not his fight, he doesn't need to-but the light casts his shadow on me and I know he’s there and I'm not by myself, which is a very powerful thing to feel when you've felt by yourself most of your life.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“Silence with him is five fifteen in the morning before the sun’s up and it’s still dark but the birds are singing. He’s the heavy quilt you pull over your head when it’s too cold and too early to wake up. He’s the song no parent ever loved me enough to sing. He’s the way water runs and bubbles over stones in a stream. He’s a quiet mind.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“I could live on the way that music made me feel, its endless unfurling of emotion and possibility, like a private magic carpet.”
― Holly Brickley, Deep Cuts