Teresa

“Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant.

Speak to me.”
― Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt

“I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head and tried to feel the shock of them, but they remained strange and cruel, far removed from Ferris and me. It was simpler to say I was in love.”
― Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt