Laekan Zea Kemp

“Something like hope begins to burn in me and I try to snuff it out.”

“Time is a false thing, meaningless when it's not attached to colors and people and light because in the dark there is nothing - only the stilted shadows of lie as they wait for the sun.”

“This journal will stay hidden among the dusty coverless books lining my bookshelf until the day I need to be reminded of who I really am. Then I will come for it and maybe I will read it to my son or daughter and pretend it's just another fairytale, changing every dark moment to light, conquering every villain, and replacing the ending with the one I was robbed off.”

“People weren't made for this kind of thing, he said, the way I feel about you, how much I feel, no one ever has or ever will even come close to it.”

“Then he kissed her without breathing, without thinking. He kissed her until his entire body was tingling from the taste of her.”

“The gypsies were a special breed. It wasn't blood that flowed through their veins but rhythm.”

“Fear, they had come to realize, not machines, is the most powerful weapon there is.”