I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.
Kiersten WhiteI canโt see through clothes or anything. Just glamour skin. Except I can see through all of you, since your clothes arenโt real.โ I stopped, horrified. โI mean, I donโt lookโItโs hard to see you, and I like looking at your real face, but I donโt try to see anything, becauseโOh gosh, this sounds terrible.โ He had a funny look on his face, like he wasnโt sure what to think. โHuh. Thatโs never been an issue before. Maybe next time you could bring me some shorts.
Kiersten WhiteI closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra souls because we started out with less, and that we could make gates because of our innately human sense of home. But my home was here. How on earth was I supposed to find another one?The gate needs to be opened and closed before dawn, Cresseda said, a hint of strain flowing through her voice.YES. THANKS FOR THAT. VERY HELPFUL RIGHT NOW.
Kiersten WhiteI could have kisses like that for the rest of my life. Kisses that don't know who I am. Kisses that make me feel more and less than what I am. But my finger tap tap taps on my leg and reminds me that I am not who Adam thinks I am, and it makes me want to cry. It's not that I don't deserve his kiss. It's that the person I am can never really share a life, a soul, with the person he is.
Kiersten White