Tebria

“Given enough time, betrayal--no matter how tiny-- makes it way up the steps and sits on the throne as thought it had always belonged there. Maybe it did and it was actually surprise that had no place.”
― Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets

“She knew men, ones in heat or ones who had something to prove, were senseless. They would rearrange land and sea to get them both to lead to satisfaction when one was enough already. Afterward, when their minds returned to them, the kind ones experienced regret, the cruel ones sought more cruelty, and the two were indistinguishable to her.”
― Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets

“I was struggling with how I would make up for lost time, but now I know the time was not lost at all. It is just passed.”
― Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand

“That was the secret to being nice. You made everything about everyone else. and shoved yourself down, deeper and deeper.”
― Liselle Sambury, Tender Beasts