Lisa

“Come out and play with me, my star. I know you’re in there somewhere, burning away where you think no one can see you. Imagine how brightly you’d shine if you embraced all that fire.”
― Harper L. Woods, What Lies Beyond the Veil

“You were curled in the corner of the bed, completely absorbed in that book, as if it didn’t matter that you lived this brutal existence and had only a tiny room to call your own. It didn’t matter that you had to work so hard for everything. When you were reading, you were somewhere else. You were someone else.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“How are you?” “Good. Fine. I mean, I wish I were dead. But aside from that.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“I touched my fingertips to one of the scars in the center of his spine, feeling his body still at my touch. “Who did this to you?” I asked, my voice sounding softer and more broken than I’d ever heard it.”
― Harper L. Woods, What Lies Beyond the Veil