“He held her with the type of intensity that only happens when a person wants something that isn't quite theirs.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After
“The Fate didn’t move. He didn’t let the girl go. He looked as if he never would. He continued holding her as if he could return her to life with the force of his will. His eyes were wet with blood. Red tears fell down his cheeks and onto hers. But the girl didn’t stir.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After
“It frustrated him immensely that he would never be able to prove that time didn't stop when she met his eye.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“Empires have fallen like this, he thinks, but it only makes him want her more, makes him look at his hands and think, My god, what a waste of time doing anything else but holding her. What a waste, and then he says aloud, JesusfuckingChrist what have you done to me? And she says, Kiss me.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“She is the goddess in the Botticelli clam shell, her eyes are the waterlilies in Monet’s pond, she is the hand of God reaching down to mankind. Klimt’s kiss is a portrait of us and I’m gonna steal it. Take it, make it mine, make her mine too.”
― Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing
― Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing
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