Marble

“For some of us, the world is never forgiving.”
― Dionne Brand, What We All Long For

“I'm a rope. A rapidly fraying, unraveling rope. How much is left? What happens when it runs out?”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

“[. . .] sometimes you have to go back to the place you left. [. . .] To understand who you've become.”
― Carter Sickels, The Prettiest Star

“And there's no pain worse than deciding to live. Ripping your thumping, beating self out from clamped jaws--that kind of hurt doesn't stop with scar tissue. Maybe it dulls as decades pass, like folks say, but the pieces of flesh you leave behind never grow back.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus