I head straight into the living room, eager to put distance between me and whatever keeps happening to my head when Warner gets too close. I need air. I need a new brain. I need to jump out of a window and catch a ride with a dragon to a world far from here.
I am a whisper that never was.
That seems awfully convenient. – James Kent.
Death would be a welcome release from these earthly joys I’ve known.
My heart is flapping wings against my throat.
Ramadan was over. We celebrated, we exchanged gifts, and Navid devoured the contents of our entire kitchen.
He likes to let a lot of people in; I like to keep most people out.
Compliments are not things I know how to process.
I hate myself for enjoying it. I.
Healing is a delicate process. It can’t be interrupted or influenced by erratic emotions.
This, I think, is the way to die. I could drown in this moment and I’d never regret it. I could catch fire from this kiss and happily turn to ash. I could live here, die here, right here, against his hips, his lips. In the emotion in his eyes as he sinks into me, his heartbeats indistinguishable from mine. This. Forever. This.
I’m so happy I could cry. “It’s about time,” he says. But it’s not Adam who says it. Thirty-Nine There’s blood everywhere. Adam is on the ground, clutching his body, but I don’t know where he’s been shot.
Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who’ve seen the world together.
That this isn’t just a factory. It’s a slaughterhouse. I.
People struggled to believe this, because people struggled to believe women in general.
There are wire cutters carving holes in my heart.
I’m beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.
Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.
My stomach is a flimsy crepe, my heart a raging woodpecker, my blood a river of anxiety.
I always wonder about raindrops. I wonder about how they’re always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end.