Miles firmly reminded himself that zombies didn’t exist. Ghosts, sure. Zombies, however, had never been proven. He knew that for a fact—he’d done a very thorough amount of research. A big part of the family business involved spending late
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“So you were too lazy to go to class?” A muscle ticks in Laurie’s jaw, but his voice doesn’t change. “Something like that. Wickwood is a shit school anyway and it’s in the middle of godforsaken nowhere. Weird, creepy stuff kept happening and every time I asked Grandfather if I could transfer, he said no because he hates me.”
― Hazelthorn
― Hazelthorn
“Adam scoffed. “I don’t owe the world a damn thing. Let it burn. Serves it right.”
― Virulence: Book Two of the Bioluminescence Trilogy
― Virulence: Book Two of the Bioluminescence Trilogy
“He would core him like a pear and throw away the soft, rotted skin until he saw him as he really is: horrible and beautiful and real.”
― Hazelthorn
― Hazelthorn
“Who tells you to be quiet all the time?” Laurie’s words are a low, thickened spill of warm honey. “Pain is meant to take up space or else we wouldn’t know how to scream. Fuck making your agony silent to avoid disturbing others. Maybe they should be disturbed.”
― Hazelthorn
― Hazelthorn
“Under the light of a moon curved like the back of a silver spoon, the garden looks like a thing from a fairy tale. Fireflies glow like pixie dust and the thrumming hum of a thousand cicadas and frogs sweetens to a cadence that feels like a song. Flowers turn to opal stones in the shadows and fungi lines garden walls like bioluminescent plates. His fingers brush them as he passes and come away powdered in spores, and he has an odd urge to lick them.”
― Hazelthorn
― Hazelthorn
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