Ryen Willson

“You’re fucking exquisite, inocencia. Like a fucking dream”
― Bella Jewel, Enslaved by the Ocean

“Why is it that we, as humans, always hope that something will change, even when we know the answer?”
― Bella Jewel, Enslaved by the Ocean

“No one, no one really knows loss until it’s someone you love. The deep-down kind of love that holds on to your bones and digs itself right in under your fingernails, as hard to budge as the years of compacted earth. And when it’s gone … it’s as if it’s been ripped from you. Raw and exposed, you stand dripping blood all over the good feckin’ carpet. Half-human, half-dead, one foot already in the grave.”
― Anne Griffin, When All Is Said

“His fingers glide up my thigh, and for a split second, I forget the pain.”
― Bella Jewel, Enslaved by the Ocean