Bethany Parker’s Reviews > A Light in the Flame > Status Update

HOLY FUCK

"I guess every aspect of one's life is somehow connected- every choice to do or not do something creates a chain reaction. You can't help but wonder exactly how much is preordained."

"Death does not want for company."

"Life and death are not very different. Both are natural, a necessary cycle, for there cannot be life without death.."

"Those poppies are the hope of life. The power of those embers. Proof that life cannot be defeated, not even in death."

"I wasn't just a messy person. I was the mess. I was temperamental. Violent. Stubborn. Prone to moodiness, anxious one second and overly confident the next. I could barely deal with myself on most days, but I wanted Nyktos to be able to handle me."

"Well, you should be pleased to see that there is no threat of my breasts being such a distraction today."

"They are always a distraction. "

"Which is more of a failing on your part than my breasts' fault."

I swear the author has heard my arguments with my husband.

"I totally believed the Hawks could do just that- maybe even snatch a slender adult.

I'd never been more grateful for my love of bread and pastries than right then."