Борислава Борисова

“Someday,” she whispered, as her fingers played through my damp hair, “you will have a full life. A home, if you want one. And you’ll see more than these stones and mountains and sky. And I’ll be with you when you first touch the sea. You’ll feel sand between your toes, and salt water on your tongue, and you will feel more joy than you can fathom. I promise.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“For awful things filled empty spaces. And it was in the darkest, deepest part of the sea that monsters were made.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“You have shone a light on me. You made me feel fury and terror and joy and longing. How do I curl myself back into the darkness after being so alive?”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“Atta closed her eyes, breathing in deeply the scent of Sonder, the beauty of their love. If he were to die, she’d envy the soil that cradled him in its arms, the flora that sprouted from his bones.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries