“I spent so long going through the motions just to make the background noise fade, but when I’m near you, it’s gone. The pressure to be something or someone I’m not is gone.”
― UnEnchanted
― UnEnchanted
“Not every tale has a happy ending. In fact, many of them are grim.”
― UnEnchanted
― UnEnchanted
“I cup the bead in my hand and smile as I drift toward sleep, wondering what my rainy days are going to look like now. As good as my snowy ones, I think. I’m going to need a bigger umbrella.”
― Night of Cake & Puppets
― Night of Cake & Puppets
“My heart feels zested. Finely shredded and ready to add to cake batter. It doesn’t hurt, because it’s not there anymore. Like the angel’s chest, with her empty heart hole—but without the sparkler.”
― Night of Cake & Puppets
― Night of Cake & Puppets
“No, I have to lure him out, like a will-o’-the-wisp, tease him deeper and deeper into the forest until he is lost and doomed. Without the forest or the doom—just the luring. Like a Venus flytrap that says I am a delicious flower come taste me and then snap! Devour. Without the devouring. Well, maybe a little devouring.”
― Night of Cake & Puppets
― Night of Cake & Puppets
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