tagged by @encrucijada & @macywrites & @karangarin & @subtlefires
opening line of hunger like smoke: (technically the opening lines of book three but who knows what the fuck is going on with the order of this series, certainly not me)
I don’t have a homeland, but I used to.
opening line of bathtub gods:
What did you do when you realised monstrosity suited you better than femininity?
opening line of paradise sick:
Summer comes in two varieties: the washed out pastels of youth, and the honeyed, sultry, slickly swallowing kind that change everything. The summer of 1973 was of the second variety.
what i wrote last for hunger like smoke:
That’s what I’m good at: when I get to let go and pull an apocalypse from the fuzzing clouds overhead, when the last thing that people will see, something forever burned and scarring in their retina’s, is my sintering form. When I get to burn from the inside out, when the ironroot wears off and for a moment I am almost all magic, that is when a camera will flash and draw me back into the shaking, cracking, aching body that is too fragile to hold me.
what i wrote last for bathtub gods: (kind of long but bear with me, out of context the lines don’t work lol)
Butterfly wings have feathers: that’s why you shouldn’t touch their wings. As a child, or as close to a child as you ever were, you’d kept a few injured ones in an old box under the couch, fed them sugar water. Their wings would flutter delicately, their tongues would unroll. After you’d been able to keep the first few until they’d healed and flown away your optimism should have curdled. Nothing good lasts. Your fourth butterfly had been crushed into the floor, even though you’d sworn you’d shut the box.
Sometimes it is hard for even you to believe yourself. Somehow it had gotten out. Somehow, someone had managed to step on it, smashed pigment into the concrete. You hadn’t kept any butterflies after that. You pretend you never had.
what i wrote last for paradise sick: (context, the main character is talking to her boyfriend about leaving to go to university. Ramona Whit is the main character’s favourite author)
“You’ll be the next Ramona Whit,” Joey said.
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