Chloé Beasley

“I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Are you made of anything but mysteries?”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“This is why I run.
Because caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn't let go. Caring hurt more than a knife to the leg, more than a few broken ribs, more than anything that bled or broke and healed again. Caring didn't break you clean. It was a bone that didn't set, a cut that wouldn't close.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“I felt her sigh, and when she breathed her sadness out, I breathed it in.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains