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Most of them had been looking for smaller waists, clearer complexions, and richer boyfriends, spurred on by a deeply ingrained self-loathing that had been manufactured for them before they were old enough to understand the kind of quicksand they were sinking in.
Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn’t broken.
“That’s because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole,”
This world is unforgiving and cruel to those it judges as even the slightest bit outside the norm.
Flirting was safe, flirting was fun; flirting was a way of interacting with her peers without anyone realizing that there was anything strange about her. She could have flirted forever. It was just the things that came after flirting that she had no interest in.
You’re nobody’s rainbow. You’re nobody’s princess. You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.
