♡ Meli ♡

“I wonder if she was trying to free herself. If so, she won’t have any luck–not unless she smashes her hand to a pulp and pulls it, wet and flaccid, through her restraint.”
― Sam Lloyd, The Memory Wood

“It’s funny how people grow into the names they are given. As though a
few letters arranged in a certain order can predict a person’s future happiness
or sorrow. Knowing a person’s name isn’t the same as knowing a person, but
names are the first impression we all judge and are judged by. Daisy Darker
was the name life gave me and I suppose I did grow into it.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“He’d always wondered what was worse: to feel emptiness and not know what would make it go away, or to feel emptiness and know exactly what was missing. Tonight, for whatever reason, he seemed to have the answer. He understood with evangelical clarity how fleeting our lives are, and how foolish it is to mourn those who’ve left too soon.”
― Peter Swanson, Nine Lives

“I am writing you from inside a body that used to be yours. Which is to say, I am writing as a son.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous