Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
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by Nyla K.
Read between February 12 - February 15, 2025
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This book is dedicated to anyone brave enough to embrace your issues… Courageous enough to dance with your demons. Here’s to the beautiful deformities in us all.
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“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did and let me love you anyway.”
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Maybe we’re two mangled, jagged pieces who could click together, despite all the fires burning around us.
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No one’s perfect, and I believe a person’s imperfections make them into who they are. Otherwise we’d all be the same.
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“Dash…” I turn over my shoulder. “Just because we’re broken, it doesn’t mean we need them to put us back together.”
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looking for any sign of my man. I need to help him. I need to protect him. I don’t care how broken he is, and I don’t care what he’s done. To me, he’s perfect, and I’ll never make the mistake of letting him go again.
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We’re beyond fucked up. Detrimentally so. We’re two halves of the most messed up whole in the world.
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like a scale constantly trying to keep balanced. But the more I think about it, the more I realize it doesn’t need to be. Maybe some things in life are meant to forever fluctuate. Like chaos. A perfect imbalance. And maybe even the distorted can be beautiful, when you really look at it.
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It doesn’t matter what you think is damaged in your brain, Dash, because I want to fix it. Baby, if there’s any sort of wound inside you, then I’ll be your tourniquet.”
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Super crazy, I know. But I’m learning to love the crazy just a little.
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let go of the idea of having parents who loved us at a young age, we learned to take care of ourselves. The walls of protection your parents are supposed to build for you, we made that shit on our own.