Brandon Bellvue

“We listened to your music, and I saw colors eroding you. You turned into pixels, and the squares fell out of place and morphed into beautiful colors. I was looking up at you as you stared down at me, and you were disentangling all my earlier feelings.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

“The tight ball of muck inside me—I opened it. I opened the shame, and it crumbled next to yours. This connection—the one I didn’t think we were going to have—let some of my muck go. And when it left my body, it evaporated into nothing. It had been living in me, but as soon as it was exposed, it disappeared.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

“Sometimes I fall asleep with my finger on your wrist pulse to try and steady my own heartbeat.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

“You were holding all my pieces together, and you were trying to balance them all in your righteous hands.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir