Cruelty & Fire Quotes

“They say there are five stages of grief, but that’s wrong. There’s more than that. When you lose someone, your whole mind breaks loose. You show your worst, parts of yourself that you didn’t know existed. Like a part of you is missing. A gaping hole where you’d rather feel anything there, than nothing at all.”
― Audrey Rush, Cruelty & Fire

“She couldn’t handle anything real. And yet a part of her was drawn to the darkness, where pain and death and grief and longing all existed in the same space, boiling with each other. Where you had no choice but to feel everything. Don’t be afraid, I had said. I’m not, she had said, triumphant in her words. What does death feel like?”
― Audrey Rush, Cruelty & Fire