Our Lying Reflections Quotes

“When he laughed, it echoed like a funeral dirge.”
― Alenour Veles, Our Lying Reflections

“His fingers grazed mine as I took the flask. "What's
this?"
"Something that makes me less drunk than you do," he
replied, winking. "Vodka.”
― Alenour Veles, Our Lying Reflections

“His smile mirrored a corpse with brittle bones, both beautiful and in decay.
I exhaled, turned away, and walked back down the corridor, attempting very hard to steer my thoughts away from the distant chime of a home I had never set foot in.”
― Alenour Veles, Our Lying Reflections

“He must hate me.
Of course He does, Elona! You never close your eyes when others do to pray. It never feels right to you. And now, closing your eyes and praying won't make you good. You aren't good, Elona! You beg Him like you beg your mother for attention. Look around; neither is here.”
― Alenour Veles, Our Lying Reflections

“My heart is so consumed by you that I cannot lay claim to it anymore.”
― Alenour Veles, Our Lying Reflections

“It's peculiar how my knowledge of him extended no further than the scars etched upon my wrists. I didn't truly know him, yet it felt as though if you cut through my wrists, you'll find him flowing within my veins.”
― Alenour Veles, Our Lying Reflections

“I would like to lay with your soul in my grave, then," he uttered, and something shattered within me. "Because a mere coffin would be too ordinary for my body; no grave could confine me. I would crawl to be buried beside you.”
― Alenour Veles, Our Lying Reflections

“They wouldn't even bow their heads before a grave, unless it entombed someone alive within its depths.”
― Alenour Veles, Our Lying Reflections

“I must be losing my mind... mistaking you for a mere dream.”
― Alenour Veles, Our Lying Reflections