Nishat

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“My beautiful boy has turned into a monster.”
― Carmen Rosales, He Loves Me Not

“I thought the wrost thing in life was not having someone tell you they love you. But I was wrong. The wrost thing is when they say the words and it's a lie.”
― Carmen Rosales

“Darkness lives in all of us.”
― Carmen Rosales, He Loves Me Not