Alecia (The Staircase Reader)

“Lust is a violent desire, destructive and uncontrollable. If you let the sensation take root, you become captive to its power, until you’re waking up in the wreckage of its path.”
― Ker Dukey, Lust

“I know we're fucked up, all right? I'm impulsive and hot-tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then you need me the next. I never get anything right, and I don't deserve you...but I fucking love you, Abby. I love you more than I've loved anyone or anything, ever. When you're around, I don't need booze or money or the fighting or the one-night stands...all i need is you. You're all I think about. You're all I dream about. You're all I want.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“Do you know why I have so many tattoos? It's because I felt invisible, as if I didn't exist. The tattoos made me feel like I wasn't a shadow.”
― Jamie Begley, Shade

“Wen we met, something inside both of us had changed, and whatever that was, it made us need each other. For reasons unknown to me, I was his exception, and as much as I had tried to fight my feelings, he was mine.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster