Jessica *The Lovely Books*

“It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence. That it is a by-product of living a certain way, rather than simply living.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Like a garden rose she has the delicate fragility of velvety petals, soft to touch, layered, but easily plucked. Yet, I need to be careful because one wrong move and the sharp thorns that protect the truth of her have the ability to make a person bleed, to fucking shred the skin. Like she’s shredding mine now.”
― Bea Paige, Steps

“They say there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, but I felt like he was the dark at the end of my light.”
― Astrid Jane Ray, Virtue & Vanity

“Yeah, you were being a super dickhead about that shit, but she could have chosen to ignore your bullshit. Instead, she let her insecurities get the better of her, and that’s not your fault, Zane.”
― M.E. Clayton, Taunting the Enemy