Hannah

“You must cast them out, she would say. You are your mind’s sole master. Banish them. Tell them to mind their own business and leave you be.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

“Shh.” I cupped his face in my hands, running my thumbs over his cheeks. I wanted to memorize the feeling of his stubble against my palms, the shape of his lips as they parted. His dark eyelashes, framing eyes that looked up at me with utter trust. With a longing so open and deep it sent an ache through my chest. No looking back. No looking forward. “Then don’t.” I lowered my face to his. “Just be with me now,” I breathed against his lips. “Be.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

“When you stare into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“Juana had always been headstrong, almost churlish, but there was a wildness to her now, one that spoke of something shattered within her.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda