When Matches Burn Quotes

“She looks like our mother. Not me. Which is to say she's beautiful, in that knife-twist way. The kind of beauty that gets doors opened and hands forgiven.”
― M.E Mullen, When Matches Burn

“You'd think a dead man would feel lighter, the spirit gone and all. But no. A dead man is heavier, like the world clings to him in one last desperate hold.”
― M.E Mullen, When Matches Burn

“Some deep, ugly part of me wanted to scream, to run, to do anything but what he was asking.”
― M.E Mullen, When Matches Burn