Bee

“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

“His heart did that funny thing it did whenever Asa did something thoughtful. Which was surprisingly often for a psychopath who liked hunting his bedmates instead of seducing them. Had Thomas taught them to be this attentive? Was it all part of the…curriculum? Maybe every man should be forced to take Thomas Mulvaney’s How to Be a Human class. He should send his future father-in-law a fruit basket.”
― Onley James, Headcase

“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

“Because for every way the world tries to kill us, it gives us a way to survive. You just gotta find it.”
― Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light