Brittany Murray

“Monsters could wear the smiles of friends while secreting away the rotten soul of the Devil in the darkest crevices of themselves.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula

“I saw you having a hard time getting across the grass to your car.’ He whispers it, like he’s telling me secrets.

‘You saw that?’

He turns a slight shade of pink, rubs the back of his neck, and stares out of the kitchen window.

‘I wasn’t spying.’ For a moment he looks ten years younger. ‘I was hoping to get your attention. You see, I thought we were flirting.’

‘Hang on a second.’ I’m confused. It’s like being introduced to Advanced Calculus all over again. ‘You mistook an anxiety attack for flirting? How?’ Trying to figure out which part of my harpooned-squid impression could be considered anything other than tragic.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
I don't want it to win.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Mental health is usually the last place people go when they think about someone being sick.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies