Safi

“Lies have been placed like delicacies on his tongue for so long he can’t recognize anything else; he is a cobwebbed collection of pretty untruths and made-up stories, and if all of that is cut away, there is nothing left. He is just a boy who was once buried alive on an estate full of monsters.”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn

“What does it feel like, anyway, to die with the garden in your mouth?”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn

“Oh, the boy I’m desperately in love with bit me and tore out my tendon with his teeth,” Laurie says pleasantly.”
― C.G. Drews, Laurie

“All he says, his voice soft and reverent and broken all the way through, is, "God was stronger than me when he made Adam and didn’t fall in love with him.”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn