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“Please pick up. Please. Please.  "Hello?" "Mom," I choked out. "Mommy."  "Oh my god, Blakey." I heard the tears in her voice and the way it trembled. "Where are you? Are you safe? I've been thinking about you every single day. Praying for you too. What's the matter? You sound strange. Are you safe?" she asked again.”
― Brea Alepoú, End It All

“He reached out without thinking and took Andrew's cigarette away. For some reason Andrew let him keep it.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

“Only one addiction can actually lead to my decimation. One addiction forces me to forget everything else whenever he’s in my vicinity. Whenever he touches me, kisses me, fucks me. I pretend my outer skin doesn’t exist. I’m not Brandon King. I’m not the broken entity who sees black ink instead of his reflection in the mirror. Not the weak man who’s more often than not swallowed by disgusting nausea and the terrifying notion of nothingness. I’m just me. His lotus flower. His Prince Charming. His baby.”
― Rina Kent, God of Fury

“AKA the perfect payback for Grace’s desertion. Just as the door opens, I look intently at the screen and act like I’m still chatting with her mother. “—And she stuck her finger in my ass when she was blowing me, which was fucking incredible. I never thought I’d enjoy having anything up there, but⁠—” Grace screams in horror.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Mistake