6 Quotes by Cambria Covell

You're lingering around me like a ghost. Wanting to climb into the body that once belonged to you. But there's no home for you here. My heart stopped beating for your spirit long ago.

Deceptive things, roses. Pretty, and delicate, it's no wonder everyone wants to pluck them. Such a good thing they've got thorns to keep them safe.

You only kiss me in dark rooms. But when I’m with him we light each other up like the sun and moon.

My brother is the soft one. He’ll give you sunshine and sonnets. But me? I’ll use the moonshine to track you by night, and my bow and arrow to pierce your heart, and take your life.

Like a noose around my neck, The Fates have tied a string to you and me. It tightened around my roots and pulled me from the ground long enough for you to put the pomegranate seeds in my mouth. And I should want to make you bleed dear Hades, but all I keep on thinking is how good the darkness tastes to me. And when Spring has sprung, I’ll use my powers to grow my roses with the sharpest of thorns, and you won’t know what is happening until I make you bleed. Love, Persephone

Tragedy doesn’t have any concept of timing. It doesn’t care if you’ve just fallen in love. Or if you’ve just gotten married. Gotten a new house. It will strike at anytime. Like a snake. Watching. Waiting. And you will never see it coming.