Patricia

“It was my crime, too. I may not have been there to see it, but I’ve seen it in my head every fucking day since.” “I was the one that got raped.” “I was the one that failed to save you.” “And because you blamed yourself—” “I wasn’t the only one blaming me.” “I didn’t blame you for not saving me,” I growl. It’s nobody’s responsibility to save me but mine.” “You blamed me for letting them live.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned

“By the time you work your way down the hierarchy to a brunette, you got yourself a woman who knows who she is, likes it enough that she ain’t gonna change, and is probably gonna try to change you, if push comes to shove. Pushy, that’s what brunettes are. Even the dainty, fragile-looking ones.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned

“Look After You by Aron Wright – Chapter Six Don’t Cry by Bugzy Malone & Dermot Kennedy – Chapter Seven Let It All Go by Birdy, Rhodes – Chapter Fifteen Start A War by Klergy – Chapter Twenty-three Waves by Dean Lewis – Chapter Twenty-five Don’t Let Me Down by The Chainsmokers, Daya, Illenium – Chapter Twenty-six Move Me by RuthAnne – Chapter Thirty”
― Bea Paige, Finale

“She threw her head back and laughed. The kid fucking laughed, eyes shining. Like there was no greater adventure she could possibly be on. Like life was turning out to be the most exhilarating, fantastic roller coaster ride she could ever have imagined. Fuck the pain. Fuck the misery. In the middle of the hopeless, brutal hell her short existence on this earth had been, that girl laughed. You don't snuff out a life like that. You honor it. You take measures to protect it, even from itself when necessary, and keep it alive.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned