FlameRoxanne

“I shut my eyes and try not to squeal. ‘Get the maggots off me!’
Raffe brushes them off, but it feels like they’re still crawling on my skin.
‘So you do scream like a little girl,’ says Raffe with some satisfaction in his voice. I open my eyes a second too soon, because I catch him tossing the severed hand into the sand”
― Susan Ee, End of Days

“You should go,’ Raffe says to me. ‘This is no place for a human.’
‘What about me being your second for the contest?’
‘Nobody will remember that once they see the Watchers.’
‘Are you sure you’re not just trying to avoid getting back into the truck with me and my mom?’
He almost smiles.”
― Susan Ee, End of Days

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

“The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
― Rangeya Raghav