Eden

“What?”
“My safe word. Meatloaf.”
“Meatloaf?” I repeated incredulously.
“Yeah, because I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that.”
― A. J. Downey

“There doesn’t need to be music for two people to move together and make somethin’ special.”
― Bella Jewel, Hard to Fight

“To truly understand a story you need to start from the beginning, but to start from the beginning you have to go back, further than just you. After all, our stories don’t start with us, do they? Our stories start with the person before us, and the person before them. We are created from the stories of those people—from their mistakes, from their achievements, from their love, and their hate. No one’s story is ever truly their own.”
― Bella Jewel, Melancholy

“Blaming yourself makes you feel in control of a situation. It makes you feel safe. If it’s Eton’s fault for this, then your brain tells you that he has the power. That’s scary. If he has the power, he could do it again, and it’s out of your control. So your brain twists things so you don’t feel so vulnerable. If you did this, then you could’ve stopped it. You can control whether it happens again. But you know that’s not true.”
― Adriana Locke, Fling