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“Honestly? I thought he was breathtakingly functional too. He was the most breathtakingly functional thing I had ever seen.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“After the deaths of my family, I lost years to drugs, wine, and aimless wandering. A slower kind of suicide, perhaps. And when I finally clawed my way out of that self-destruction, I built a cottage too far away from the world to be bothered. I planted hundreds upon hundreds of flowers and told myself they were all the company I needed. Better than people anyway, I’d mutter to myself. Simpler to care for. More predictable. And much prettier.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“All I could think was that I loved her.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“She was killing me. We were killing each other. And if this was how it had to go, then I wanted — I wanted so fucking badly — to burn up with her here. Let our bones lie together.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds