Juniper Unraveling (Juniper Unraveling #1)

by Keri Lake

“I’m going to die, anyway, aren’t I? Eventually?” “Indifference to death isn’t going to help you here. Learn to be indifferent to pain, and you’ll become invincible. Defiant.” “Inhuman. No one is invincible.”

“Hard to believe people are going about their day on the other side of that wall. Don’t know a thing about us, or what happens here. Life never changed for them,

“Civilization has always been divided into those who have everything and those who have nothing. Even when the world goes to shit.”

The little girl who would curl into herself, cursing and shaming her body, is no longer here. In her place is a woman. One who’s seen the darker side of man. Who’s felt the raw brutality of the world. One who can bathe in the aftermath of her sins.

closer a person gets, the more they sacrifice themselves, until they’re burning in that unforgiving fire, wishing to become numb, as they turn to nothing more than ash on the wind. That’s my take on love. Yet, still my masochistic heart yearns for that heat.