Tinks

“My beautiful, deadly little Stardust, as I've decided to call her. A representation of the complicated supernova of feelings I've experienced since first laying eyes on her. Like the dusty remains of a star's chaotic explosion, she’s somehow managed to coat every piece of my existence with her bejeweling presence, and she doesn’t even know who I am.”
― Jen Stevens, Prey Drive

“He is learning that in any war, the victors may be destroyed as completely as the vanquished. They still have their lives, but they have given up everything else in order to keep them. They sacrifice what they do not realize they have until they have lost it. And so the man who can win the war can only rarely survive the peace. The poet may not want to learn this,”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“It takes a certain kind of cruelty, Odysseus, to look upon desperate men and see only swine.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“I inhale her scent—a strong mix of coconut, vanilla, and coffee.”
― Jen Stevens, Prey Drive