Happy #PublicationDay to Laura Steven! Her latest novel ,"Every Exquisite Thing," is out in the world and available to purchase today! If you are looking for a Gothic and sappic retelling of "The Picture of Dorian Grey," then you want to pick this book up. Your #HalloweenTBR will feel empty without it!
Maybe you know the feeling. Maybe you know what it's like. To compose a life of scraps and fragments. To live in jumbled lines. Between stitches and tight sentences. In the texture of torn out paper, crumpled and dismayed. All our dead darlings, balled up on the floor.
That's the funny thing about real life, isn't it? We're either always denied the things we want or discovering that we never really wanted them at all. Did you think it wasn't true? You can tell me I'm wrong, but you know it too.
Any moment is every moment. Any day is everyday. What you do with this one, how you hold it, how you view it, how you put it to use, says all you'll ever need to about how'll spend all of them, about who you are, about what'll do, about what you'll be. Whether you'll become something different, or whether you'll stay the same...
Any introvert worth their weight in cancelled plans will tell you, it's easier to slip out early when you've learned to sneak in late. The best part of every guilty pleasure, is the pleasure you get from not feeling guilty when you know nobody sees...