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“This wasn’t going to end well. It couldn’t. It was going to break him. Evemer would not survive this—likely he had already failed to survive it. Likely it had already changed him, and he was only just now beginning to realize.”
― A Taste of Gold and Iron
― A Taste of Gold and Iron
“That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was conditional.”
― Camp Damascus
― Camp Damascus
“We haven’t been blessed by some incredible superpower from the great beyond, we’re just curious. Sometimes that’s all it takes.”
― Camp Damascus
― Camp Damascus
“Reciprocity was a thing you had to learn. Someone had to tell you, first, that you deserved to be treated well, before you knew it for yourself.”
― A Taste of Gold and Iron
― A Taste of Gold and Iron
“Fixing seems so permanent, so absolute. Like there’s no room for error. Aim to make things better.”
― The Gravity of Us
― The Gravity of Us
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