“Most of all, I like how she makes me want to be a better person. For her, for me, for the whole goddamn world.”
― Throttled
― Throttled
“The cruel boy who had used to fling her own confused desires back into her face like a knife-thrower at a carnival had become a man who could charm her into holding those selfsame blades at her own throat.”
― Sine Qua Non
― Sine Qua Non
“You want to risk everything? For real?"
"I'm risking nothing for everything. It's different.”
― Wrecked
"I'm risking nothing for everything. It's different.”
― Wrecked
“Maybe fate is recursive—the mention of fate can, itself, be fate, signposting the steps our unlikely journeys take through the universe. Or maybe fate is a word people invoke to manipulate those who are desperate for meaning.”
― Hold Me Under
― Hold Me Under
“There are two versions of me:
one that forgives like forgiveness is the only thing
they serve here, so I just have to keep ordering it,
and one that doesn’t.
The one that doesn’t
is the one that writes the poems.”
― When the Stars Wrote Back
one that forgives like forgiveness is the only thing
they serve here, so I just have to keep ordering it,
and one that doesn’t.
The one that doesn’t
is the one that writes the poems.”
― When the Stars Wrote Back
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