Kira K

“There are fires to be suffered
the blaze of cruelty, the smoulder
of inextinguishable longing, even
the gentle candleflame of peace
that burns too.

I suffer them. I survive”
― Julia Darling, The Poetry Cure

“Maybe you can't be sorry for something you don't remember.”
― L.A. Weatherly, Wasted

“If I had to make a bet, I'd bet on her going back on the drink. I don't think that she's going to change, not when she won't even look at my arm and see what she did to me.
I hope I'm wrong, but in a way it doesn't really matter. I know I'll be OK, somehow, if she stays sober or not. I'm not alone now. I've got friends that I can count on.
And even better ... I can count on myself.”
― L.A. Weatherly, Wasted

“Den was a nasty piece of work, and had only got nastier as he'd grown up. It really wasn't his fault, though. As is so often the way, he'd grown up in a toxic household and didn't know who to talk to, or how to express his emotions. The older he got, the angrier he got at life, and blamed everyone around him for it.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story