nidhi

“I tried to keep him at a safe distance where he could only see the decent parts of me and it made us both miserable. I inadvertently let him in to see the ugly parts but instead of running away like I’d counted on him to do, he wrapped his arms around all of that ugliness and didn’t let go.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“Perhaps,” he said, his voice low. He trailed his hand up her thigh. “All goddesses are just beliefs draped on the scaffolding of ideas. I can’t touch what’s not real.” Séverin looked up at her. His pupils were blown out. “But I can worship it all the same.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

“People are going to betray you the way Judas betrayed Jesus, the way Brutus betrayed Caesar, and you will love them anyway.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

“And the answer is
not every building that shakes
will collapse.

The answer is
not everything that chips
will crumble.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium