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It’s been a long time since I’ve been attracted to someone, and in the past, I’ve experienced it so rarely that I’ve started viewing men as paint swatches in various neutral tones. When I look at Hayden, I see deep forest greens and warm
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“This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. I suppose both are a sort of gentle violence, putting down in ink what scorches the air when spoken aloud.”
― A Dowry of Blood
― A Dowry of Blood
“You did not let me keep my name, so I will strip you of yours. In this world you are what I say you are, and I say you are a ghost, a long night's fever dream that I have finally woken up from. I say you are the smoke-wisp memory of a flame, thawing ice suffering under an early spring sun, a chalk ledger of depts being wiped clean. I say you do not have a name.”
― A Dowry of Blood
― A Dowry of Blood
“There was no huge argument that predicated my decision to betray you, no ultimate act of tyranny. I simply broke under the weight of a thousand tense nights, a thousand thoughtless, soul-stripping words. I felt like I was losing my mind in that place, and eventually my desire to do something about it, anything about it, outweighed my fear of you.”
― A Dowry of Blood - S.T. Gibson
― A Dowry of Blood - S.T. Gibson
“If you can still hear me wherever you are, my love, my tormentor, hear this: It was never my intention to murder you. Not in the beginning, anyway.”
― A Dowry of Blood
― A Dowry of Blood
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