Debbie Peters

“Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“Emily woke to shadows and their voices. They looked different today, because the entire world hurt. The numbness had worn off sometime between sleep and awake, and she was seeing red. The shadows on the walls were not shadows at all, but red blobs consisting of teeth and claws. Her house reeked of pain.

The whole world was fucking bleeding.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“What to do with life? Get out of bed, Derek. That’s what you do. You get out of bed, and you get yourself a cup of fucking coffee. That’s all you can do.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“If I could claw the words out of the back of my throat and give them, dripping of me, to you, we would talk of sticky hands, and the messes they make.”
― Nicole Lyons