Marked by Masks and Secrets (Everlasting Possession #1)

by Maggie Sunseri

“Hard to remember someone so dull.” “Everyone is dull to you,” I muttered. “No, only dull people are dull,” she said. “High standards are not a flaw, my dear. They guarantee a life worth living.”

There was that word again. Reality. I’d never been a fan of the notion. Perhaps why I spent so much time escaping to other worlds between the pages of a book.

Good girl. Good fucking girl.

She had no fucking idea what I would do to her for being such an incorrigible brat—once she was all mine. She’d better enjoy her freedom while it lasted.

If you hide from the world, the world will hide from you.

Just because someone is drawn to your light, doesn’t mean they’re made of light themselves. Some recognize that you hold something they will never have, and they will do anything, anything at all, to try to starve that radiance until it dies. Because they’d rather you both live in darkness than for you to be the only one to shine.”

“When parents neglect us emotionally, we may grow up to unconsciously repeat that same pattern in other relationships. Because it’s comfortable. This belief that we are deficient, that we need to earn another’s love by being someone we’re not. Because we were taught that who we are authentically will never be good enough.”