ven loneliness, hollow and cold, becomes so familiar it starts to feel like a friend.
“When you experience something like that, the only way to get it out of your mind is to impose images over it. And one day something so wonderful will happen that it will completely obliterate it. That’s life.”
― The Secret Woman
― The Secret Woman
“I wonder if you would have wanted me if you found me like that: vibrant and loved and alive.”
― A Dowry of Blood
― A Dowry of Blood
“When a man no longer deserves your loyalty, it is not a failing of yours, Grey.”
― A Heart So Fierce and Broken
― A Heart So Fierce and Broken
“I knew then I would chase your tiny moments of weakness all the way into hell and back. What is more lovely, after all, than a monster undone with wanting?”
― A Dowry of Blood
― A Dowry of Blood
“Choices are never easy. There are good and bad options, but the most dangerous is to not make any choice at all.”
― A Heart So Fierce and Broken
― A Heart So Fierce and Broken
Alyse’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alyse’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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