Riggs’ character was close to her Avengers’ character, in that she had intelligence, beauty, and strength of character, but without the sharp wit, or a gun, judo, and karate. Her character has had a successful career and wealth but is severely emotionally damaged. She becomes a nun, a...
and graze the sharp, narrow corner against my lip. Like scratching an itch, the grazing reassured me. I suppose I might have thought of it as my companion. It was not painful; but there was still a gratifying sharpness; an act of careful, deliberate scratching to which my eyelash pulling...
“I’m often difficult to love. I go through dark periods like the moon and I hide from myself. But I promise I will kiss your wounds when they’re hurting. Even if they’re in your soul, I can find them with the light in my fingertips. I will lead you to the river so you c...
Once the garlands were done, she set about hanging them above the windows. The sharp piney scent of them tickled her nose as the bells strung throughout winked merrily back at her in the firelight. She had just finished hanging the last one when there was a sharp tap, tap, tapping at ...
“I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.”—Jean Rhys “Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the space of vagueness and emptiness.”—Sebastian Horsley “It’s not the feeling of completeness I need, but the feeling of not...
Let’s just say he’s ‘special’ to me, and I wanted so badly to come up with some earth-shattering wisdom to solve all his problems and leave him comforted (and slightly in awe of my verbal dexterity), but all I managed were a few long pauses, punctuated by the razor-sharp “Uhm...