Carrie (brightbeautifulthings)

“If Eddie had been Riley’s friend, he wasn’t that for Andrew. That friendship was a muted fraction of the real thing, the marrow-thing, that tied them together. Through the cavern and their hauntings since, through a life spent with Eddie keeping him leashed but cared for at the same time, he couldn’t find a label that fit where he needed it to go. Maybe instead, just a hard stop: he was yours.”
― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

“Sometimes she cries because things are so beautiful and we keep messing them up. Because the world doesn’t have to be so terrifying. That’s on people, not the world.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“If you can delay pain, you delay it, don’t you? Even when it’s inevitable. Especially when there’s teeth involved.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior

“Having been loved wasn't the same as being loved.”
― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons