Rowan Siegel

“But when they were alone, he could promise himself that he and Julian were each other's birthright, and that the only unnatural thing was the fact that their blood was divided between two bodies. He could believe that even calling it "sex" was incorrect, because it wasn't about anything so shallow as physical desire. They wanted each other in the way of flesh wanting to knit itself together over a wound.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

“Paul hated the look of his own bare wrists, with their shining blue veins and the skin stretched
too thin to hold them in place. They reminded him that his body was a thing that could be taken apart.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

“Beautiful things are supposed to hurt. It’s what I was saying earlier—even if you don’t know how you’re going to create something that matters, you can still want to do it so badly you can barely think about anything else—”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

“He had all but pleaded for it, the precision and scalpel-sharp intimacy of Julian’s cruelty. He had needed to remember that they were monstrous together, merciless, twins conjoined at the teeth.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights