Aurora

“She was starting to believe they were the same thing. When humans wanted each other, they were all mouths and teeth, desire and satisfaction. Miriam wanted Esther in that way, also. She didn't see the need to distinguish between lust and love, consumption and devotion. Miriam loved her. She wanted her life and her death and each bloody beat of her heart in between.”
― Natasha Siegel, As Many Souls as Stars

“Grief is like a splinter too deep underneath your skin to remove. At first, it is a sharp pain. Then a dull one that only bites when you press it. But you endure. You shape your new self around it, and you learn to survive. Eventually, they tell me you'll learn to thrive.”
― Beverly Twomey, What the Sea Brings

“One final exhale, so she might breathe common sense into his soul. A single sigh, so Brax would understand the desperation behind what he meant to her. Half a heartbeat to show him though hers might've failed, it'd never fail him.”
― A.J. Lexa, Lines Between Stars

“Esther felt as if she were ripe fruit, about to burst its skin, a cloud about to rain, and she was so undone, so confused, so exhausted of feeling constantly on the edge of something without actually reaching it.”
― Natasha Siegel, As Many Souls as Stars