Sofia Samu

“...This'll be the day that I die. . . .This'll be the day that I die. . . ."
The energy in the room changes. Not just my confidence despite how off-key I am, no, our words are actually connecting with the Deckers in the audience, sinking deep past their skin and into their souls, which are fading, like a firefly turning off, but still very present. Some Deckers sing along and I'm sure if they were allowed to have lighters in here, they'd whip them out; some are crying, others are smiling with closed eyes, hopefully lost in good memories.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“We stomped through the world and crumpled things where we walked, too human, not creature enough.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

“Tell me what you want,” she said, “and I will make it happen.”
I want my liar, I thought.
I want her mouth.
I want her perfume to rub off on my skin like bruised grass.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“It’s a midnight lie... a kind of lie told for someone else’s sake, a lie that sits between goodness and wrong, just as midnight is the moment between night and morning.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie