Janna

“Toreth?" Warrick asked softly.
He kept still, breathing slightly irregularly, until finally Warrick climbed into bed beside him. Then it was simply a question of timing the movement right so that they met in the middle, accidentally, and Warrick's arm slipped accidentally round him.
Why, he wondered sleepily, did he still bother pretending?”
― Manna Francis, Family Values

“Did you really think I didn't see that watch?”
― Manna Francis, Mirror Mirror

“However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away.

Never enough to make them love you.”
― Manna Francis, First Against the Wall

“Could you get off like that without it? Without the chains?"
Without the absolute surrender. "No. And not without you. You more than any of it.”
― Manna Francis, Shopping, No Fucking