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I want your gift. Please, master, teach me how to bullshit.”
heLP
I’m not a victim—I’m a survivor.
It’s like that pond I skated on when I was a kid—from a distance, the ice looked so shiny and smooth, until you got close enough to it, and suddenly all the uneven edges and crisscrossed skate marks became visible. That’s me, I guess. Covered with skate marks that nobody ever seems to notice.
Hannah’s intelligence and razor-sharp tongue is wasted on a guy like that.
the most destructive emotion known to mankind—hope.
“I want to murder him in his sleep, A. No, I want to murder him when he’s awake so he can see the joy on my face when I do it.”
Some things are too embarrassing to admit, even to your best friend.
See, this is why people shouldn’t lie. It always comes back to bite you in the ass.
bitch fest
I’ve never met anyone who sleeps with so many pillows. Maybe he needs them to cradle his massive ego.
She keeps me on my toes,
Good thing I don’t give a shit what he thinks.
I suddenly wonder how I ever made it through life without Hannah Wells’ sarcastic barbs and annoyed grumbles.
people should be nice because they are, not because it’s a calculated move on their part.
I keep telling myself that the rape didn’t destroy me, but it did. A piece of shit didn’t just steal my virginity—he stole my ability to have sex and feel pleasure like a healthy, red-blooded woman.
She’s too strong to allow anyone—especially a piece of shit high school rapist—to break her.
No, what she’s lacking is the ability to trust, and to some extent, confidence. She just needs someone to…guide her, for lack of a better word.
But right now, all I want is for this girl to smile at me again.
“You are an evil person,”
“And one day that voodoo black magic of yours is going to come back to haunt you.
Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don’t know how you ever lived without them. How you went about your day and hung out with your friends and fucked other people without having this one important person in your life.
“How did I go so long without noticing you, damn it? Why did it take seeing a stupid A on your midterm to make me notice?”
know you’re into me, Wellsy. And I’m definitely into you. Would it really be so bad if we made this thing official?”
pussy-whipping
“But I’m not sorry that I want to be with you.”
“I’m hot for you, Garrett. Only you.”
Oh, and I love being with her, plain and simple.
Hannah Wells is…amazing. She’s so fucking attuned to me, my moods, my pain. I’ve never been with anyone who can read me so well.
“Do you realize how many abusers are walking around unpunished? How many rape charges are dropped because of ‘insufficient’ evidence, or how many date rapists get away with what they’ve done because the victim is too scared to tell anyone? So yeah, it’s not fair, but it’s also not worth agonizing over.”
Living well and being happy is how we get over the shit in our past.
I didn’t let a single person in, not even my closest friends, and then you came along and I realized just how fucking lonely I’ve been.”
I’m the bitch.”
And how the hell am I going to convince him I don’t want to be with him when I can’t even convince myself?
Beggars can’t be choosers,
