mia

“Who are you?' She said, 'Have you always been like this? Have you just been waiting to happen?”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“Remember what you told me? About anger and happiness and how you get to choose?” He nodded, slow and careful. “Family is like that too. When you’re old enough, you get to choose.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“4. I dream about you every goddamn night. Every time I even close my eyes. But my dreams blur the edges and I’m driving myself mad thinking that one day that’s all I’ll have left of you. Blurred edges in my dreams.   5. I want you to know that I”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“I think she wants to eat me. I think she would inhale me if she could. I think she'd crawl herself inside of me if she thought that's where she'd find something that I've kept hidden from her. God help me. Would I let her? I would let her. God help me she looks at me. God help me I don't want her to look away.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep