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“The first time she’d met Lucía, she’d actually done a double-take. One, because Lucía had a floppy, mohawk-like shave, and it really, really suited her, but more so because she was wearing boots that looked like they were the army and a black shirt turned inside out and artistically severed, so that her stomach was just peeking through, and Maya could see she was an outie (which could have killed her).”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go

tags: love-at, punk-rock-love, sapphic-love

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#2

“And then they are falling, their hair streaming, the dog wailing against her throat. Jude’s laugh is as sharp and delirious as wind pummeling the splintered lines of broken glass. It’s a terrible sound. The mad smile on her face, the wide stretch of her lids around her eyes, is unpleasant, and yet Maya finds herself mirroring the expression—a shriek of terrified joy breaking from her throat as they hit the water.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go

tags: adventure, bad-girls, freedom, sapphic-energy

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#3

“Jude’s back is knobby and reptilian, her skin stretched thin over her spine and ribs. She looks like a tyrannosaurus rex bent over its catch.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go

tags: character-description, strange-women, witchy

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#4

“This is, after all, Nova’s computer. Yet when he opens the browser (feeling just a pinch of guilt), it automatically goes to a photo site, and suddenly their faces are everywhere, gazing back at him from sunnier times.

Mason shrinks away, avoiding both sets of eyes. Nova, the masochist.

It would have been better if they hadn’t had that in common.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go

tags: ex-boyfriends, gay-romance, heartbreak

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#5

“In present tense, Mason Murray looks like he stems from a long line of hedgehogs. He hunkers on the steps like he’s considering disappearing—like he might make that happen if he only balls up enough. He’s pasty and red in the face, but not from the sun or good health. No, he seems to be blushing.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go

tags: character-description, enemies-to-lovers, first-meeting, nerd-aesthetic

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#6

“This dream has a pulse. He can feel it drumming a frail tattoo: My son, my son, my son…”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go

tags: dream-magic, dreams, grief

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#7

“I just don’t think you should go around saying, ‘Then it will be over.’ It’s not the end. It’s just the start of a new chapter. Just new shit that you have to figure out how to cope with.”

“Fuck, you are grim.”

“Pot, kettle.”

Harper sighs. “We’ll be lucky if Nova sticks around long enough to wave good-bye.”

Mason laughs despite himself. “Fair.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go

tags: enemies-to-lovers, ex-boyfriends, life-lessons, revenge

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#8

“Do dogs dream?” she asks the air, because Yunior doesn’t seem to be paying attention. “Do you dream about Nova?”

The dog pauses, wagging his tail with greater force.

“Nova. Nova, Nova, Nova.”

Yunior turns, wiggling all over, and leans low on his front legs, yapping.

“Sorry. No Nova here. I’d keep him in my pocket, but he’s a little too big. Only just, but still.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go

tags: dogs, dogs-loyalty, friendship, humor

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#9

“Shit,” Oren mumbles.

“Shit,” Mayhem echoes.

“Fuck-fuck.”

Manu looks around, shrugging. “I didn’t want to get jinxed.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

tags: friendship, humor, sillyness, wolf-pack

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#10

“It’s a name that feels like Pop Rocks on his tongue—bright and crackling; not painful, but not soothing either. It’s the sound of a firecracker bursting into a million sparks and leaving only the memory of light against a smoky sky. It’s the best and worst four-letter word in his vocabulary.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

tags: feelings-of-love, gay-romance, one-sided-love, pains-of-love

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#11

“/What’s the most interesting thing anyone’s ever told you?/

Nova’s heels banged the cupboards as he cradled his coffee to his belly.

/I don’t know./

/Whale sharks are filter-feeders. They’re the largest fish on earth./

He turned his copper-green eyes on Harper and smiled until the skin around them crinkled. The morning light caught in his left eye, and it blazed, golden.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

tags: character-description, gay-romance, love-grows, memories

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#12

“Pink electricity snakes out from her fingertips, jumping from the guitar and sending rainbow-hued sparks floating to the ceiling. She leans her hand to the strings and feels the chunky, percussive roar of the palm mute rumble through the amps. It gnaws at her bones, shakes her blood in her veins like some kind of fantastic, terrible cocktail of sound and iron, and she is so desperately happy.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

tags: dreams, music, musician, punk-rock

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#13

“Someone might like you, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be there for you. They can love hanging out with you at happy hour, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to understand if you call them at two in the morning. In fact, the more people like you, the more likely they are to want you to be nothing except the things they like about you. But most people like being liked, so when they feel someone wants them around—and people will want you around if you’re giving them something—they try to please that person. They bend over backwards. You end up used, and used is not loved. Do you get that? Nobody has a lot of friends.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

tags: friendship, life-lessons, loneliness, real-friendship

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#14

“I guess if you have shit you don’t feel good about, now’s as good a time as any to figure that out and do what you can about it.”

He glances up at Harper, nodding once.

“I don’t want to give you love advice, though. It’s contrary to my interests.”

“You do love him, then?” Mason asks, and Harper looks away, blowing hair from his face.

“Who knows?”

“I think you know. It just depends on how much you’re willing to be honest with yourself.” He looks down at his hands. “But I’d rather not give you love advice either.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

tags: cute, enemies-to-lovers, funny, gay-romance, life-advice

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#15

“No one ever expects Maya. She’s like a suckerpunch personified. If you fool yourself into thinking she isn’t paying attention, or that she’s too shy or introverted to disagree with you, she will put you in your place. I like that about her, though. She’s not a mean or a hard person, but she maintains her boundaries. I’ve never been good about that. My boundaries get trampled, and I become ugly and mean. I act like someone else entirely, and I— Well, anyway, she’s everything you see and everything you don’t.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

tags: boundaries, character-description, friendship

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#16

“He could make a new life here. There might be bags of cotton candy and pretzels. Those things never go bad. Though a life lived on stale pretzels seems like a pretty steep sentence for crimes of the heart.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

tags: crimes-of-love, ex-boyfriends, failed-relationships, gay-romance

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#17

“Jude laughs, and it burns through the dryer-hot air like the first crack of thunder. The crow caws and caws behind her—laughing or screaming, Maya can’t tell. “We are not babysitters. We did not come here to take care of little boys.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

tags: bad-girls, witchy

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#18

“Four out of five,” Mamaw says. Her body clicks and groans as she shuffles to the edge of the porch. “How much time do you think I have?”

Jude flinches.

“Four out of five,” Maya agrees. “You’ll never outrun your bones like this.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

tags: dreams, fear-of-failure, running-away

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#19

“Nova returns, but he won’t meet anyone’s eye, smiling with a giddy, unhinged expression when spoken to. Mason avoids him, overcome by fear or guilt—something heavy that makes itself apparent in how he slinks around, avoiding notice. Jude scrambles nearly an entire carton of eggs, which no one but she and Harper eat, and then takes a long shower that uses up all the hot water.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Black Tree Chaise

tags: awkward-moments, character-descriptions, funny, pack-life

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#20

“Don’t give me love advice. You’re a maiden aunt.”

“I’m not a maiden—”

“No. We will never speak of this moment again,” he says, sliding off the stool.

She laughs, swatting him with the dish rag.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Black Tree Chaise

tags: family, funny, mothers-and-sons, sweet-moments

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#21

“I don’t have any money,” he tells her.

“I know,” she replies, leaning over and unearthing a wallet. “But I found some.”

“‘Found.’”

She pulls out a card and puts the green leather square onto the console. The edge is riddled with tooth marks, and Nova frowns.

“That’s Harper’s.”

“I’ll buy him a present. He won’t mind.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Black Tree Chaise

tags: bad-girls, funny, troublemaker

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#22

“Harper smiles just a little. “You know...”

Oren tilts his head.

“Um, never mind.”

“Man, don’t do that. It’s the worst.”

Harper shakes his head, cheeks turning hot. He rubs his face against his shoulder. “Just pointless, sentimental what-ifs.”

“What-ifs can be like wishes. You don’t have to squash them.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Black Tree Chaise

tags: connect, friendships, hope, wolf-pack

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#23

“Lucía snorts. “They think we’re doing it.”

“We could always prove them right.”

“Not until I’ve taken twenty showers, we cannot.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Black Tree Chaise

tags: funny, intimacy, lesbian-romance, sapphic

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#24

“I’d rather kill you than let him have you,” Maya whispers, and then she lunges, her elbow circling Harper’s throat, her body pressed to his back. “Either of you.”

“Thanks,” Harper manages to grunt.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Black Tree Chaise

tags: extremes, friendship, understanding

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#25

“Amaris keeps texting me pictures of him. She took him to the record shop. She says he’s really into Pink Floyd.”

He laughs, scrubbing a hand through his hair. “I mean, who doesn’t love The Wall?”

“I always thought he was a Yellow Submarine kind of frog.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Black Tree Chaise

tags: cute, ex-boyfriends, friendship, funny

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#26

“He passes the cigarette, grunting softly and pretending to be very interested in the skeleton eavesdropping on their heart-to-heart.

She softly slaps his shoulder. “Don’t make those caveman sounds at me. You know I’m right.”

“Yeah, but have you ever called your mama out on anything?”

“Never had to. She’s always been right,” she says, squaring her shoulders and smiling slyly.

He laughs.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Black Tree Chaise

tags: complicated-families, friendship, funny, mothers

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#27

“His father smiles, all the lines in his face collapsing, but this time, the map they draw leads to a quiet joy.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Girl Who Grew Antlers

tags: familial-love, fathers-and-sons, joy

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#28

“People will cast you as their villain. No good deed, no act of compassion or charity will change their mind, but it doesn’t make you a villain. Cut them loose. You don’t belong to them.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Girl Who Grew Antlers

tags: life-advice, moving-on, self-worth

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#29

“He laughs uncertainly, putting a hand to his chest.

It doesn’t feel like ba-dump.

It feels like Har-per.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Girl Who Grew Antlers

tags: enemies-to-lovers, gay-love, love-story

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#30

“Time is still guiding her. Her enemy, her rival—that cosmic beast that nips her heels.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Girl Who Grew Antlers

tags: anxiety, death, time, witchy

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