Paris had a key chain with a bead for each guy she’d slept with. Seriously. She insisted that if guys could put notches in their belts, why couldn’t she? A true feminist. I respected her for that.
“My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“Too late I realise that she has been the Summer of my life. What a slow and painful death this shall be.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“I would drape my own soul over her body to protect her from eyes like mine.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“That they’re dangerous women. Women who can’t control themselves. Who don’t know the right way to love.”
― The School for Good Mothers
― The School for Good Mothers
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