“Longing wakes me up and keeps me up. Gimcrack ache is a Southern thing, Suki says, but I'd never heard the expression before. It's the feeling you get when you see a bauble on somebody, a cheap necklace or a stickpin so pretty you'd do anything to steal it.”
― Black Light
― Black Light
“When she lets it, Trish's voice puts a fullness in you that is beautiful and awful, makes you feel like a glass of something waiting to be spilled.”
― Black Light
― Black Light
“It's quite possible my daughter will disagree with this version altogether. She might say that I've put words into her mouth. Show me a mother who hasn't.”
― Black Light
― Black Light
“You are sweet and smart and definitely not extremely strange. You are lovable and deserving of love--everybody is.”
― Black Light
― Black Light
“There is a not-small part of me that can't help but see a thing through to its disappointing end.”
― Black Light
― Black Light
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