Malik C.

“I made the chicken the way he likes it, and he's telling the story again. About the rescue and the kick and the smoke and how afraid the woman was before he saved her. His mother has called twice today because the news segment ran again this morning, and one of the guys at the station got his wife to bake Scott a cake shaped like a fire truck. "They want me to do an interview," he says. "A real one. Sit-down.”
― Zia Rayyan, Dead Girls Don't Burn

“Because you're mine," he says. "You've always been mine, and you will always be mine to do with whatever I please.”
― Zia Rayyan, Dead Girls Don't Burn

“That’s why your friends seemed to recognize us in the galley. They didn’t recognize us. They recognized them.”
― Chloe Benjamin, Under Story

“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living,” Augustus said. “I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove