When I was looking for peace and quiet from my mom’s shit, he didn’t ask questions. Didn’t pry. He just let me sit in his car and get high, listening to Deftones with the windows down.
“You are like the death flowers that grow rampant in your wake: lovely to look at, intoxicating even, but get too close and you will soon learn that there is something rank beneath. That’s what beauty often is, in nature. A warning. A disguise. Do you understand?”
― House of Hollow: The haunting New York Times bestseller
― House of Hollow: The haunting New York Times bestseller
“Then they’d be acknowledging my existence. If you do something that is forbidden, it is the action that is the target. If you do something that isn’t forbidden, and they intervene, then it’s not the activity that’s attracting attention, it’s you yourself.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“That’s a pretty heavy burden to bear,” Vivi said. “Being everything for someone.”
― House of Hollow
― House of Hollow
“And suddenly, there is no hesitation. The words just travel effortlessly across the table straight from his lips to my ears. “Ms. Underwood, you looked exquisite on your knees.”
― Praise
― Praise
“was a grim testament to a truth I knew but refused to acknowledge: that it was possible to suffer devastating, incomprehensible loss and continue to live, to breathe, to pump blood around your body and supply oxygen to your brain.”
― House of Hollow
― House of Hollow
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