Burntcoat Quotes
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“I have this feeling - of being unplugged and too far from the socket and what remains is a red warning bar.”
― Burntcoat
― Burntcoat
“There's blindness to new lovers. They exist in the rare atmosphere of their own colony, trusting by sense and feel, creatures consuming each other, building shelters with their hopes. Other worlds cease. I know I felt something as it began, an understanding, foreboding, ordinance, even. Love is never the oldest story. It grows in the rich darkness.”
― Burntcoat
― Burntcoat
“I did not contact my father. He had another family; he was a stranger. I'd been raised, capably and neglectfully, by a borrowed woman and her shadow. I lay on Naomi's bed in the empty cottage, comforted by the hollow in her pillow, my face soaked. It was the beginning of grief, for every version of her.”
― Burntcoat
― Burntcoat