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“livid, adj.

Fuck You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“I’ve been friendly. I’ve been frightened. I’ve been fake. But I’ve never been fierce. I’ve been frustrated. I’ve been forgotten. I’ve been forgiving. But I’ve never been fierce. I wanna be fabulous. I wanna be flamboyant. I wanna flaunt what I’ve got. I want to be fierce.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“Mum is a costume she squeezed herself into, for you.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.”
― Mira Grant, Deadline

“trust”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“So much of marriage requires becoming fond of things you would otherwise find revolting”
― Tara Conklin, Community Board

“Are you just going to let me have everything I ask for?” I say. “Yes.” He nods. “I don’t want to give you even the slightest reason to leave.”
― Melinda Salisbury, Her Dark Wings

“Most people have two faces. If you haven’t learned that by now, there’s no hope for you.”
― Melinda Salisbury, Her Dark Wings

“I’d thought it would just be a kiss, like a hundred kisses before. I thought I knew what to do, how it would go. I didn’t know anything at all.”
― Melinda Salisbury, Her Dark Wings

“His mouth was cold, he tasted like ice, or salt, or diamonds—something clear and sharp and glittering, something that would quench or call a thirst, or buy an army, start a war.”
― Melinda Salisbury, Her Dark Wings

“But you seem happy when you’re with him, and for that he has been awarded my unenthusiastic tolerance.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still