Lauren Shippen
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The Infinite Noise (The Bright Sessions, #1)
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2019
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A Neon Darkness (The Bright Sessions, #2)
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2020
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Some Faraway Place (The Bright Sessions, #3)
6 editions
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2021
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Passenger List
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2021
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The Infinite Noise Sneak Peek
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Own Your Magic Sampler: New YA Fantasy from Tor Teen
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2020
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A Neon Darkness Sneak Peek
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NEW-Infinite Noise
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“I don't even like me, why the hell would anyone else?'
'Adam.'
Fuck. Why did I say that? Now she's got her Very Concerned voice on. She puts her hands on my shoulders and turns me to face her.
'I like you.'
'You're my mother, you have to like me—'
'I like you and your father likes you'—she talks over me—'and anyone who gets to know you will like you. Sometimes that's enough. We don't always have to love ourselves in order to receive love from others. Sometimes that's how we learn to love ourselves.”
― The Infinite Noise
'Adam.'
Fuck. Why did I say that? Now she's got her Very Concerned voice on. She puts her hands on my shoulders and turns me to face her.
'I like you.'
'You're my mother, you have to like me—'
'I like you and your father likes you'—she talks over me—'and anyone who gets to know you will like you. Sometimes that's enough. We don't always have to love ourselves in order to receive love from others. Sometimes that's how we learn to love ourselves.”
― The Infinite Noise
“What's the word for when you're sitting at a table with someone you don't know all that well and they maybe just implied that you're gay and you are gay and you think they were trying to be inclusive or something but you kind of shut them down because they asked out your crush earlier and you really don't want to be having this conversation and now there's all this weird, unsaid stuff in the air that's making it hard to focus on your debate prep?
Is there a word for that?”
― The Infinite Noise
Is there a word for that?”
― The Infinite Noise
“Another shuddering inhale. God, this is hard. His blue warmth is starting to bleed through the cracks in the wall and I want to cry with relief. “I was a fucking coward,” I finish. And then—just when I was hoping a dam would burst—the wall just dissolves, letting the blue-green wash over me, clearing out the muck in my veins for the first time in months. “I feel like I should apologize too,” Adam starts, and I immediately jump in to stop him. “No, just let me,” he insists. Another deep breath in for both of us. “I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this—about us. And I think I was too wrapped up in my own shit before. I was so worried about making you feel sad that I didn’t think. I didn’t let you in. And I put a lot of pressure on you to be the stable one—the normal one—in the relationship, which is pretty fucking ironic. Your power is cool and everything”
― The Infinite Noise
― The Infinite Noise
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