“If not dissuaded, they will get to the innermost nucleus of the antarctic and melt and bore till they bring up that which may end the world we know. So I must break through all reticences at last - even about that ultimate nameless thing beyond the mountains of madness.”
― At the Mountains of Madness
― At the Mountains of Madness
“I am so sick of crying over them...those girls and what happened to each of them. My mother and what she dragged me into... and how I clawed myself out.”
― The Girls I've Been
― The Girls I've Been
“My heart has a piece of Wes wrapped around it like a bandage. My skin will hold the memory of him as permanent, because you don’t forget the first person to touch you with love after life’s taught you all touch is fear and pain.”
― The Girls I've Been
― The Girls I've Been
“I'd never felt more instantly connected to a person in my life. I didn't love her immediately. I was already too wary for that. But I recognized something in her, something I wanted to be but couldn't even articulate yet: free.”
― The Girls I've Been
― The Girls I've Been
“What you don’t understand,” she said to me once when I told her how dangerous it was, “is that I am the thing in the dark.”
― House of Hollow
― House of Hollow
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