Bee

“I wonder if all my days will be spent pressing vainly against doors forever shut to me.”
― Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light

“Not the same." She cries for a long time, and when she's done, she says quietly, "Someday, someone I try to save is going to let me.”
― Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light

“Being a Mulvaney made Adam Teflon. And Noah belonged to Adam. That knowledge was a heady thing. Being untouchable. It made Noah reckless. Fuck. It made him dangerous. Far more dangerous than Thomas’s mercenary training ever would. Because Adam would do anything to protect Noah. Anything. He was like a vicious junkyard dog, and Noah held his leash.”
― Onley James, Unhinged

“He needed to know that Atticus was as territorial as he was, as fucked up over him as he was over Atticus. That he’d kill for him. Die for him. That this obsessive compulsion was a two-way street. That there was some kind of unspoken agreement that the only way out of this relationship – no matter how fucked up – was if one of them stopped breathing.”
― Onley James, Moonstruck