Ariadna

“Is it brave to be alone? Maybe, in a way. But it was also brave to ask someone to be with me, even though it was the wrong person, and in the wrong way. How could I have asked him to love me, day after day, when the answer kept on being no? What desperation made me live that way?”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“Cravings were wishes that could be satisfied, but compulsions were needs that must be met”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“I didn't ask love of him. I didn't want him to look in my direction and see me; for there was no thing I could say, with confidence, was me. I panicked when me need shone through because it was real.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“While his life might look the same from the outside, it would be entirely different on the inside. He wouldn't forget her, his warm lady, even if he lived for six decades more. He knew that now, sitting by her cold fire. She would be with him all the days of his life. As he walked the streets of Boston, as he conducted his business or chatted with acquaintances, she would be the ghost beside him. She would sit with him as he ate, she would lie beside him as he slept. And he knew that when his time on this earth was at an end, his last thought as he entered the void would be of her. The scent of lemon balm would haunt him forever.”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, To Taste Temptation