Darcie

“They've never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart. And they never will.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“It all came back. Every bone in my body turned hot. Then I couldn’t make it stop. All those memories. Whatever kept them stored away broke. There was a rush of sensation through me, then nothing. And for days afterward, I’d get overwhelmed with a sound or the way my shirt rubbed against my arm or a smell. Like my body remembered and reminded the rest of me.”
― Ronlyn Domingue, The Mercy of Thin Air

“Right after her funeral I felt the way you feel when it suddenly starts raining hard, and you look around and find no place to take shelter.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“The whole thing was so intense, so full of hurt that when I look back at it I squint. I want it forgotten.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching