Katie (Kitkatscanread)

“Some kinds of news should only be given if you have a cat on hand to hug.”
― Paola Peretti, The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree

“Life moves forward whether you're okay or not.”
― Calia Read, Unravel

“I didn’t notice my lips had curled until his thumb moved, tracing the shape of that smile as if it was something worthy of reverence. “Are you going to kill me, Oraya?” I didn’t run. Didn’t move. Instead, I lay my palm flat against his chest. I surprised even myself when I replied, “Not tonight.” His hand slid from my face and swept a stray strand of black hair from my cheek, smoothing it to the side. But instead of withdrawing, his fingers tightened around my hair—clutching it, but not pulling, as if he was trying to convince himself to let me go and failing. “You might destroy me anyway.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Perhaps I didn’t share his blood, but I was his child in every other sense of the word, and he loved me the only way he knew how. At the edge of a blade.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night