✧ ☾ ☽ Dessa ✧ ☾ ☽

“Love is funny that way. It persists even when you’ve done everything in your power to banish it. It demands its own voice and refuses to be a slave to anyone but its own desires. And despite the power of it, those selfish desires are what make love so weak. It’s accepting the apologies of a cheating lover. It’s returning to a raised hand, over and over, until that hand becomes lethal, and home is in the afterlife. It’s clinging to a mother who never wanted you and hoping she will one day show up on those church steps. It’s grabbing ahold of a hand that belongs to both a father and an abuser, wailing as they slowly slip away. It’s falling in love with a liar, a thief, and praying they never hurt you again.”
― H.D. Carlton, Does It Hurt?

“I hope I’m enough to anchor her, enough she can feel and understand that I’ll be her lifeline.”
― E. Salvador, Please Don't Go

“I felt fear for the girl I didn’t know, who was ready to end it all.”
― E. Salvador, Please Don't Go

“If you wait for other people to light you up, then I guess you’re at the mercy of darkness.”
― Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers