Chloe Planques’s Reviews > The Safekeep > Status Update

"She was not wanted. That was the long and the short of it: she had learned want, briefly and hungrily. A span of a day, two days. She had learned the shape of it, the quick taste of it. She had reached out, foolishly, and she was not wanted in return."

"What did people who spoke of joy know of what it meant — What did they know of not speaking for days, of not having known the touch of another, never having known, of want and of not having felt the press of skin to one's own. — what did she know of — what could she possibly know of what it —"