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“apples,”
― Penelope Douglas, Corrupt

“I gazed at the color that reminded me of Christmas and apples, roses, and rows of Autumn Blaze Maples I’d seen as a kid. Of fire and hair ribbons and my mother’s evening dresses.”
― Penelope Douglas, Corrupt

“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain… Or so says the legend.” —Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds”
― Kate Stewart, Flock

“It’s a high I’d almost forgotten about, a high that’s more addictive to me than any drug could ever be. My heart has some scar tissue, but it beats steady,”
― Kate Stewart, Flock

“It’s a high I’d almost forgotten about, a high that’s more addictive to me than any drug could ever be. My heart has some scar tissue, but it beats steady, constantly letting me know that playing his game leaves it vulnerable, and somewhere in the back of my mind, I hear the warning. For now, I’m playing blissfully ignorant, all too ready for another hit.”
― Kate Stewart, Flock

“In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed— But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.—A Dream, Edgar Allen Poe”
― Kate Stewart, Exodus

“I don’t want to love him,” I whisper hoarsely. “Stupidly, I thought…” “Thought what?” “I thought I would see him, and my adult brain would kick in and reason with my stupid heart.”
― Kate Stewart, Exodus

“Don’t play stupid. You got arrested for going a hundred and three in a fifty and caught with nearly an ounce of weed. What do you call that?” “A fantastic Thursday afternoon?”
― Kate Stewart, Exodus

“She’s my mirror, my judge, and has revealed herself as my sole purpose. She brought direction back to my deadening soul when I lost my way, and she continues to guide me back, a star too bright to ignore, no matter how far I stray.”
― Kate Stewart, The Finish Line

“No matter how we came to be, we were and still are. You stole my heart, and you let me love you with it, and you made damn sure I knew where its home was.”
― Kate Stewart, The Finish Line

“I grab the bottle of lotion sitting next to it, uncap it and inhale. Immediately I’m hit with the familiarity and one of the triggers of my addiction to her, her scent. Reading the label, it dawns on me why. Juniper Berry. No wonder I’m addicted to her smell. I drink the contents of her scent nightly In. My. Fucking. Gin.”
― Kate Stewart, The Finish Line

“And an overdose isn’t satisfying. Not in the same way as cutting into someone’s chest cavity, breaking and peeling back their ribcage, and severing their beating heart while the life bleeds from their eyes.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Chapter one Wren”
― Elira Firethorn, Blissful Masquerade

“I believe this world is filled with nothing of the normal, that we are all monsters and freaks. And if my beliefs are true, we can come out of our hiding places and find one another. I believe something more hideous and cruel than us has put us there, in the dark corners of our minds. Something that isn’t normal itself, for normal is the lie to keep all the monsters and freaks tamed.”
― Nicole Fiorina, Hollow Heathens

“CHAPTER 3 FALLON”
― Nicole Fiorina, Hollow Heathens

“I want to do exactly what he did to us—but to him.” “And what does that mean, exactly?” “I want to take someone he loves and torment them mercilessly. I want him to try to sleep every night, knowing we have them. That they are being strangled, raped, and beaten into oblivion.”
― Penelope Sky, Buttons & Lace

“I love her beyond limits because she loved me through what I forced her to endure. She loved me, though I made us impossible. I was the one who forced our stars to blaze past each other. I was the one whose wrath made our path detrimental to us both. And she loved, and still loves me, despite it all. But even with the solidarity of that love, it’s trust and forgiveness I seek.”
― Kate Stewart, The Finish Line

“Time passes by you like a bullet,” he says, “and fear gives you the excuses you’re craving to not do the things you know you should. Don’t doubt yourself, don’t second-guess, don’t let fear hold you back, don’t be lazy, and don’t base your decisions on how happy it will make others. Just go for it, okay?”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“It’s always the same wish. Every candle. Every time. I want a life I never want to take a vacation from. That’s my goal.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“They have big hair, and I can feel the breeze from their eyelashes when they blink all the way from here.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“it was a wake-up call one day when I realized I’d been waiting for my life to start—my real life—only to realize that it had already happened when I wasn’t paying attention. That train I was waiting to catch raced by me without stopping. There probably wouldn’t be a wife, and I would never know what it would be like to have my kids grow up seeing me every day. At this point, I’m too used to being on my own that I’m like an only child. And an only-child doesn’t know how to share his things.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“It takes conviction to do what you know you’re supposed to do regardless of what you want.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“He was... magnificent. Beautiful in the way pain was beautiful, because it tugged at the chest and made something visceral come alive in the stomach and caused blood to simmer in the veins. Enchanting in the way she imagined dark magic was, because it twisted the air around it and warped the mind and overpowered the senses.”
― RuNyx, Gothikana

“It’s Charlie.” Charlie. Not Sam. Charlie. The wrong brother.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“My feet crunched on the driveway, the air heavy with dew and the lush smell of moss, fungi, and damp earth.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“Only these trees knew the truth of everything that had happened here, and sometimes, she wished there was a way for her to listen to their stories.”
― RuNyx, Gothikana

“He smelled of dangerous adventures and coming home, of heartache and nostalgia.”
― RuNyx, Gothikana

“Steer clear of me, little crow,” he muttered, his eyes piercing, flaying her open. “You might be a luring siren but I’m no ordinary sailor. I’m a mad pirate and I’m trying to resist your call. If I land on your shores, I will plunder and take away everything worth having. Be very careful giving me those eyes.”
― RuNyx, Gothikana

“I rushed towards the rainbow striped flying horse complete with gaping butthole and shoved it towards the door.”
― Caroline Peckham, Ruthless Fae

“There was a tail made of synthetic hair sticking out right above its gaping asshole which tangled between my fingers as I fought with the sordid toy in a bid to get it out of my personal space.”
― Caroline Peckham, Ruthless Fae