Bastonikov

“There isn’t a version of me that could’ve looked away from you.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“I think she wants to eat me. I think she would inhale me if she could. I think she'd crawl herself inside of me if she thought that's where she'd find something that I've kept hidden from her. God help me. Would I let her? I would let her. God help me she looks at me. God help me I don't want her to look away.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“She would never leave a room again and not leave half of her behind.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“All we can hope for in life is to know one's own desires in order to be able to act on them. To want is to surrender to uncertainty. To step into the unknown. To expose ourselves to all possible outcomes and trust we will not be destroyed by disappointment.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone