“As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“That is the first time I enjoy the privilege of having the upper hand with Professor Delacroix. And though I do not… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Deep space rendered mortal time-lines inconsequential. Few things were as old, or pervasive, as the vast, encroaching darkness of the universe.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that she was sad—sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“What does she see in him?" "Power. Money." I might have imagined the pause. "Sex." "That's disgusting." "You asked. Don't ask things… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Words were the bane of her existence. She drowned in them when all she wanted was silence, only to have them recede… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“What if she wants to be hurt? What if, like a flint to tinder, I can coax her to flame? To burn… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“For a moment, the cardboard sets come crashing down to reveal that squalling monster, reality, locked up in the confines of its… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did not—intellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animals—if they didn't devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“No. I made that choice. I let all that anger and pain get twisted up in my thoughts for you.” He leaned in. “It… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“We both want you dead. I'm bringing the friendship bracelets to the next meeting.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“Does your family play games, too?" She tries to sound off-hand. "No. Just me - and my brother." Which means her parents are in… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“I feel I could kill. I feel that I might like it. And I know that this should scare me. But it doesn't. It… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“If people are meant to live, they'll live. If not, more room for the rest of us.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“You were a well-respected agent, Michael, a rags-to-riches fairytale ending. Until you became disgraced. Now it appears your own organization wishes to be rid… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with—and vice versa—the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
