Ariel

“I know you’re scared of losing control around me.” Her chin tips up as though she’s told me something that will make me back down. Run me off. It doesn’t. “No, I’m scared of you becoming something I can’t live without.”
― Elsie Silver, Hopeless

“I also liked pretty, broken things. Maybe it was their suffering that reminded me I was human. I needed the screaming. The begging. The crying. It made me feel. Just what I felt was sometimes the problem.”
― K.G. Reuss, Church

“You don’t tell a person you love them with the expectation they’ll say it back. You tell them because you want to. You tell them because it’s true.”
― Elsie Silver, Hopeless

“Obviously, my ovaries don’t know what my brain does. Men like Vaughn are bad news. Knock, knock, ovaries! It’s brain here. Let me in.”
― Elsie Silver, Off to the Races