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“Of all people, Martin is the one I want to tell that Susannah O'Shea is not just a girl from our class, but that she is a seraph who found Crossmore, and that I don't have time for him because I am too busy kneeling at the altar of her navel.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“Soon I expect I will taste of nothing but clotted blood and ash. Will you still put your mouth to me so feverishly then, when I have fully decayed?”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“Petrified, I do as I am asked and taste the lollipop. The mess of her chewed-up burger has come back to my mind; it is met by her liquid voice, the close weather, the heel of her sock exposed as she leaned over the counter, and the sting of sweetness from the lollipop at my back teeth. It's her spit in my mouth. It's her racing through my mind. I don't mind it. It makes me sick. I like it.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“But change comes, again and again. It’s the only thing you can count on.”
― Lucy Ayrton, Things We Lose in Waves