“Haven’t you told me repeatedly to trust my gut?” “You don’t have a gut,” she says, dry as a bone. “You’re dead.”
“But just before I go, the skin about my blackened eye warms. Not with pain. Not from the memory of the kiss pressed there. But at the ghost of a gloved hand.”
― The Shadows Between Us
― The Shadows Between Us
“I have imagined countless ways that I might be rid of you. Countless ways that I might quiet that filthy mouth of yours. Yet since the moment I saw you stalking the halls of my home, I’ve also felt something stirring that I do not understand, but that I’ve not felt in a very long time. And this time I will not run from it.”
― Wisteria
― Wisteria
“Speak one more word to my wife,” Aris growled, “and I will tear your tongue from your throat.”
― Wisteria
― Wisteria
“Nothing is all good or all bad,” she says. “Life is so much messier than that.” And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it. Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow? Were the moments of beauty worth the years of pain? And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says, “Always.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Why? Why the devils would you do that? You were beaten!” I raise myself up tall. “Well, yes. But I had a marvelous time until then.”
― The Shadows Between Us
― The Shadows Between Us
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