“because when I asked myself if I had the right to those tears, the answer was always no, and it was easy to stop myself.”
― Check & Mate
― Check & Mate
“There was something outside the house that was clearly murderous and looked just like me. There was something inside me that was clearly murderous and felt nothing like me.”
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
“Some nights, when he’s walking past her door, he has to whisper to himself: “Keep going.”
― Bride
― Bride
“There once was a girl,” he murmured, “clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King—a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same: “The girl, the King… and the monster they became.”
― One Dark Window
― One Dark Window
“Why would you keep something that makes you think of me?” I feel him shrug. “Because I think of you anyway, Mallory.”
― Check & Mate
― Check & Mate
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