“Sometimes she wished she’d died in the hospital with her father, to be remembered and mourned for her possibilities, rather than live day by day growing ever lesser. Now it didn’t matter if she’d been an alchemist, or a healer, or anything else. To anyone who ever learned of it, she would only be that one thing. Women were always defined by the lowliest thing they could be called.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“The one charm of the past is that it is the past.”
― The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
“they weren’t attracted to each other, they’d known it even before going to bed together, but they still wanted to try, because they were alone”
― The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
― The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
“Do I know you?” she asked as her eyes slid closed. “I suppose you do.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness. Pray that one day, you will spin around at the water’s edge, lean over, and be able to count yourself among the lucky.”
― Her Body and Other Parties
― Her Body and Other Parties
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