Romancing the Reader

“I love you, Daria Followhill, and I think you love me, too. In fact, I think we fell at the same time. You, like rain, in drizzles, over the weeks. Me, like the fucking sky above my head, all at once, crashing without the faintest chance of stopping.”
― L.J. Shen, Pretty Reckless

“Some things break when you put too much pressure on them, but those shards they break into can be twice as deadly.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“I missed it the way you miss the sun after a long stretch of cloudy days, where you begin to forget the cloudiness, forget to miss the sun, and then one day it comes back to you so hot and clear and bright that you wonder how you ever lived without it.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“I wish I could rewrite you out of my life
But all your pages are highlighted
Dog-eared and thumbed to death
I can no longer read you
But you are still my favorite poem”
― L.J. Shen, Pretty Reckless