Marble

“My body feels like it's going to crack open.”
― 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

“There is still too much of me.”
― Carter Sickels, The Prettiest Star

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