Lindsey

“I thought I knew what I wanted... I wanted answers. But when they came, I didn't know what to do with them.”
― Jayden Jelso, Talon

“In Portland, the name Powell's meant only one thing: a bookstore. Not just any bookstore, but a bookstore that took up an entire city block.”
― S A Bodeen, The Gardener

“I’m bleeding inside where no one will see. Where no one will ever know to look.”
― C.J. Redwine, Defiance

“This isn't how it should be, God.

Thousands of graves marking thousands of lives--so much focus on death. Did the gravediggers spend their lives just serving the dead? How many Numbers ticked away for the sake of carving headstones no one would read?

As I stare at this scene, I decide I don't want a headstone when I die. I don't even want to be buried. I want to disappear--save that chunk of earth for people to live on. This land I stand on is worthless now. No one can build a house here. No one can plant gardens or start a new village. Is that what the people buried beneath me would have wanted?

Earth wasn't intended to hold only dead bodies.

I stand. God, I need to live.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Die