These Fleeting Shadows

by Kate Alice Marshall

“Whoever you choose to be, I love you. You are the stars, and I choose you. All of you.”

We took a beautiful thing, and we cut into it until all it knew was suffering.

You have to believe that you deserve to be saved, Helen. Because you are the only one who can do it.”

I could lose the stars, and then where would I be?”

The girl whose heart beat harder because Bryony Locke was holding her.