Sammi

“I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“sometimes i wake up
in the middle
of the night
and find
poetry
splattered
all over my bed.”
― Sanober Khan

“The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . .”
― Chelsie Shakespeare, The Pull

“He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.”
― Chelsie Shakespeare