Jessika

“Come, let us talk with our closed-up throats, crushed hearts and wet eyes. Quickly, because when you get that metallic taste on your tongue and teeth it means trouble and when I get that light feeling in the space between the back of my eyes and my skull it means hell.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“I saw my life as if I stood apart from it, the vanity, the self-serving, the constant fleeing from one petty annoyance after another, the lip service to God and the Virgin and a host of saints whose names filled my prayer books, none of whom made the slightest difference in a narrow, materialistic, and selfish existence. I saw my real gods … the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity. Cinders.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

“I dreamed you beautiful. You are nothing beautiful. But three years and I can’t clean you off my skin.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Staying forever far from home completely, completely at sea. Knowing God has cut me out jagged, loose, wild.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone