Rose Johnson

“What a privilege it is to be stabbed in the back by such delicate hands”
― Kori Jane Spaulding

“Children who go through too much, grow up too much. It’s a shame because when these children grow up, the child that stays in them has barely developed.”
― Kori Jane Spaulding

“I was banking on the fact that the past two weeks had been hell for her as much as it had been for me.
Part of me hoped they hadn’t, because the thought of her hurting in any way made me want to burn the palace to the fucking ground. But another, selfish part of me hoped I’d haunted her as she had me. That every breath was a struggle to draw enough oxygen into her lungs, and every mention of my name caused a sharp needle of pain to pierce her chest.
Because hurt meant she still cared.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Games

“Darkness didn’t scare her. A part of her reveled in it because it was only under the cloak of darkness that people dared to show their true selves. Everything - the good, the bad, and ugly - came out at night. But contrary to popular belief, those ugly parts didn’t detract from a person. No, they made them whole, and there was nothing in this world more beautiful than completeness, nothing more breathtaking than knowing someone loved every last bit of you - including the pieces you hated about yourself.”
― Ana Huang, If the Sun Never Sets