Vanessa (When Vane Reads)

“was the sweetest torture, the most delightful torment, to let the man that had ruined me for joy bring it back into my body for one brief instant.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I don’t understand people. They smile when they are mad. They hug people they hate. They steal from people they genuinely love. And they are jealous of babies.”
― Darynda Jones, Brighter Than the Sun

“Loneliness is a liar,” Graham told me, sitting down on the edge of his bed as he spoke. “It’s toxic and deadly most of the time. It forces people to believe they are better off with the devil himself than being alone, because somehow being alone means a person failed. Somehow being alone means a person isn’t good enough. So, more often than not, the poison of loneliness seeps in and makes a person believe that any kind of attention must stand for love. Fake love that is built on a bed of loneliness will fail—I should know. I’ve been alone all my life.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Gravity of Us

“One day at a time. That’s all it takes to get through anything.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Fire Between High & Lo