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“When you erupt, girl, make sure it is felt across worlds.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I'm sure there's more substance in the love between two adults than there is between two teenagers. There's probably more maturity, more respect, more responsibility. But no matter how different the substance of a love might be at different ages in a person's life, I know that love still has to weight the same.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Ah, but you were not a pawn. All along, you have been the queen.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“Your now is not your forever.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I know all of your quiets. I know when you’re alone with me and you’re quiet, it’s because your brain is still. And when you’re in public and you’re quiet, it’s because your brain is loud. But I don’t know this one. What’s this one?”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“This isn’t your life, Bri. This is just a shitty chapter in your story.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“All they do is lie and throw off your PH balance. They are a constant reminder that we don’t choose our sexuality, because who in their right mind would choose to be attracted to men. They are completely worthless as partners. Did you know that when a wife becomes seriously ill, she is six times more likely to be abandoned by her spouse than a husband is?”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“This is what it feels like to be truly loved. I’ve never felt it before. And I didn’t even realize it until just now.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“hard. “I stole the microwave plate. And the lightbulb out of the fridge. I took the lid for the blender and the oven mitts and the garage door opener and I untuned his guitar and I tore out the last five pages of the book he was reading. I put red Kool-Aid in the shower head and peeled the labels off all the canned food and I put raw shrimp into the curtain rod on the window next to the bed—stop laughing!”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“Wouldn’t it be amazing to live like that? To not carry that burden around with you. To not feel constantly overwhelmed and overstimulated and second-guess every little thing.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly