“The sky is gory with stars, like the insides of a gutted night”
― Salt Slow
― Salt Slow
“I breathe in (stars and sky). I breathe out (snow and trees).”
― We Are Okay
― We Are Okay
“That’s a pretty heavy burden to bear, being everything for someone.”
― House of Hollow
― House of Hollow
“But you’re stronger than me, Margot. You are. You bore what I never could.” And the thing is, I know she means it like praise. Like pride. But it isn’t to me. Because yes, I bore this. I fixed it, but there’s a voice in my head, one I’ve never really heard before, and it says, I shouldn’t have had to.”
― Burn Our Bodies Down
― Burn Our Bodies Down
“The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
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