Victoria Bush

“You felt like a burden,” I surmise. “I didn’t know how to be anything else,” he states plainly.”
― H.D. Carlton, Does It Hurt?

“Reva had an interesting method of mixing her drinks. After each sip of Diet Mountain Dew, she’d pour a little Jose Cuervo into the can to take up the space her sip had displaced, so that by the time she finished, she was drinking straight tequila. It was fascinating to me.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“You want to watch the world burn?” “Let me guess, you’ll set it on fire?” I ask. He chuckles, the sound vibrating through me and settling into my bones. “No, darling. I’ll hand you the match and stand at your back, watching you become queen of the ashes.”
― Emily McIntire, Hooked

“I saw him first, but it didn’t matter. Because he saw her.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey