Aunt Bella comes at me, sweeping me into a giant hug and cutting off my retort. “Daney-Waney-Yuletide,” she coos. Damn it. Whoever let my mother give me that middle name needs their ass kicked. Yuletide. As though I’m Santa’s favorite elf,
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“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
“His fingers clench into his sheet, relax, tighten, stretch out like roots still clotted with fresh soil. He is made of sticks and teeth and broken rose stems, his cheeks kissed with salt from tears he pretends he hasn’t wept. Loneliness haunts him. He needs to— wake up wake up wake up”
― Hazelthorn
― Hazelthorn
“All the things I’ve done,” Adam said. “What if you hate me for them?” “Try me,” Oliver responded without hesitation. “Tell me everything you think is unforgivable and let me show you that none of it matters.”
― Virulence: Book Two of the Bioluminescence Trilogy
― Virulence: Book Two of the Bioluminescence Trilogy
“Hope was even more dangerous than people. You could survive a lifetime of horrible people. Adam had. But the higher hope builds you up, the more painful the impact when you inevitably fall.”
― Bioluminescence
― Bioluminescence
“Georgie frowned. “Are you sure she was infected?” “Of course, I’m sure. I don’t think mushroom eyes are a common occurrence.”
― Virulence: Book Two of the Bioluminescence Trilogy
― Virulence: Book Two of the Bioluminescence Trilogy
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