But it felt incomplete, my collection yet whole. And so, for the Nightmare, I bartered my soul.
“When I watch you sleep," he said shakily, "I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“That was what I'd always loved about reading, what had driven me to write in the first place. That feeling that a new world was being spun like a spiderweb around you and you couldn't move until the whole thing had revealed itself to you.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“When you love someone,” he said haltingly, “. . . you want to make this world look different for them. To give all the ugly stuff meaning, and amplify the good. That’s what you do. For your readers. For me. You make beautiful things, because you love the world, and maybe the world doesn’t always look how it does in your books, but . . . I think putting them out there, that changes the world a little bit. And the world can’t afford to lose that.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“I’d never met a woman like you before. You told me to go to hell and made me look forward to the trip.”
― The Friend Zone
― The Friend Zone
“All Eli had to do was smile. All Victor had to do was lie. Both proved frighteningly effective.”
― Vicious
― Vicious
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