Tate

“Everyone in the room was watching James—how could they not?—but I was the only one who really knew him, every inch.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“She says, "Were you love in him?"
"Yes" I say, simply. After all that, was it so strange? I am no longer baffled, or amazed, or embarrassed by it. "Yes I was"
It wasn't the whole truth. The whole truth is, I am in love with him still.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“When did we become such terrible people?”
“Maybe we’ve always been terrible.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“I knew by then the way the story went. Our little drama was rapidly hurtling towards its climactic crisis. What next, when we reached the precipice?
First, the reckoning. Then, the fall.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains