Ménage à Claws Quotes

“This is what it felt like to be consumed by love. It filled every cell, every follicle, every stretch mark in your body with pure, untapped energy. There was nothing more freeing than knowing you were being loved without condition or expectation. And I had been worthy all along. Nothing and no one was going to take that away from me.”
― Amelia Lascaux, Ménage à Claws

“The intense vulnerability of not only being accepted by someone you cared about, but being adored for every aspect of who you are.”
― Amelia Lascaux, Ménage à Claws

“Don’t lose yourself in the in between,” I whispered. ”It’s either be selfish to protect your peace or sacrifice part of you for someone who doesn’t give a fuck about how much it hurts.”
― Amelia Lascaux, Ménage à Claws

“When someone suffers at the hands of a parent, society finds blame in the child no matter how bad it gets. Especially as an adult, we’re told to forget the abuse, ignore our residual pain. Because we grew up fine. Never mind the constant self-doubt, convincing yourself it wasn’t that bad. Or the perpetual state of fight or flight–always on the edge of explosion or a meltdown.”
― Amelia Lascaux, Ménage à Claws

“if giving me ‘everything’ means providing what every child requires to live, then yes, you gave me everything. Minus the unconditional love.”
― Amelia Lascaux, Ménage à Claws

“There was no hurt from knowing he loved another woman. They were in a polyamorous relationship with two other people. Love was a renewable resource—it had no threshold that could be breached.”
― Amelia Lascaux, Ménage à Claws

“Plants were preferable to people because they only asked for you to sit beside them and keep them company.”
― Amelia Lascaux, Ménage à Claws

“Swamp ass is a summer epidemic that everyone should be fighting against.”
― Amelia Lascaux, Ménage à Claws

“sacrificing a little for those you love was worth the price, as long as you never forgot the reason why.”
― Amelia Lascaux, Ménage à Claws