Lily Sparks

“At the moment of contact a physical rush seizes my entire body, an awareness so intense it's almost panic. Most of my life I've been a head and a pair of hands, only remembering the other parts of myself when they hurt. But kissing Erik, I am the heart of an infinite universe of sensation: I'm the curved shoulder his hand has found, I am the soft skin inside my wrist as it drags against his back, I am the cheek his eyelash brushes, I am the thrashing heart and repeating thought: I can't believe this is happening, this cannot be happening. And I have never, not even once, felt so completely alive.”
― Lily Sparks, Teen Killers in Love

“Except for me,' Erik say viciously. 'Everyone gets a fresh start except mean old Erik.

'You've been calling me a weakling and telling me I don't belong here since I got here!'

'Yeah, and I'm right!' he says with cold fury. 'Maybe that's what really bothers you about me. I don't pretend either of us is something we're not. I don't ask you to make me daisy chains in a meadow or tell you you're a flower. I'm just myself with you, terrifying though I may be, because I trust you can handle it. But you can't. You're determined to think the worst of me!”
― Lily Sparks, Teen Killers in Love