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“Remembering is heavy. It lasts so long.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“Death is the only constant in my life, like an old friend who hones every one of my dark secrets into a weapon. He calls me weak and all I hear is Ordinary. He calls me doomed and all I hear is an earnest promise. His is the hand my bloody fingers reach for because there is comfort in his imminence.”
― Lauren Roberts, Fearless

“Have you ever been in love?” I ask in return. I don’t know what makes me say it. He nods slowly, like it pains him. “Just once.” “What did it feel like?” He thinks for a moment, his eyes boring into mine all the while. “Like getting run over by a carriage.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“But who am I, if not a sister?”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain