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“Waiting. Not waiting. One lover. A hundred lovers. There should be no judgement either way. A woman is not defined by what she does or doesn‘t do in the bedroom.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“The rebel in me loves to throw dirt in the face of decorum.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Do you love him?”

Of course not, I think. I do not do such childish things as fall in love. Love made me into a murderess. It broke me for a time. I had to build myself back up.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Tell me,” I say. “You don’t need to read a letter. Just tell me.”

He closes his hands into fists at his sides. “I want you.”

I wait for him to say more. When he doesn’t, I say, “Surely you can do better than that.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Sometimes you have to endure painful things to realize that you're a whole lot stronger than you think.”
― Jenn Bennett, Alex, Approximately

“We all really do contradict ourselves and contain multitudes. How do we even figure out who we really are?”
― Jenn Bennett, Alex, Approximately

“I have no idea what you mean, but I support you completely.”
― Jenn Bennett, Alex, Approximately

“He thinks I’m a snob? He’s not the first. Just because I’m quiet doesn’t mean I’m aloof. Maybe I just want to be alone. Maybe I’m not good at conversation.”
― Jenn Bennett, Alex, Approximately

“Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
I don't want it to win.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Disadvantaged white people are not erased by discussions of disadvantages facing people of color, just as brain cancer is not erased by talking about breast cancer. They are two different issues with two different treatments, and they require two different conversations.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“To refuse to listen to someone’s cries for justice and equality until the request comes in a language you feel comfortable with is a way of asserting your dominance over them in the situation.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Poor people shouldn’t have to prove how much they deserve to have a roof over their heads and feed their children.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“But that's change - finding beauty in the imperfections.”
― Katie McGarry, Echoes Between Us

“Don't you get it? The only time I live is when I'm with you.”
― Katie McGarry , Echoes Between Us

“Being nice is a good thing. You can be strong and nice. You don’t have to be one or the other.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“Remind myself that there is no saving of people—people can only save themselves. The best you can do is help when they're ready.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“Sometimes it's hard to know if something's for real? It's hard to believe it, even if you want it to be real. Even if you want it so badly. Sometimes it seems...safer, you know. Not to risk it.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“It just feels like..." Her voice small. "Sometimes it just feels like I'm faking."
"Maybe everyone feels that way.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“If you only like one version of your favorite, then they’re not your favorite,” she says primly, and I can’t really argue with that.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“Sometimes...around some people, I feel like I have to, like...try, you know?...But with you-- when I'm with you, I can just...exist. You know what I mean?”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“Please tell me people who look like us can be loved.
Please tell me people who look like us can be desired.
Please tell me people who look like us can have happy endings.”
― Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert

“Since approximately half the humans on this planet either have gotten or will get periods, I’ve always found that particular brand of squeamishness ridiculous.”
― Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert

“I want to work at a library someday," I said. "I want to spend every waking day of my adult life surrounded by books.”
― Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know

“Sometimes it's important to let the people we care about know that a single incident doesn't have to define them”
― Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know

“Life isn’t easy for anyone. We all have challenges. We all face adversity. It’s how we overcome it that makes us who we are.”
― Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know

“Hate, enmity, rivalry are all passionate responses. My personal theory is that they are incomplete expressions of one core human emotion: love.”
― Chloe Liese, Only When It's Us

“Think about it. We don’t bother with people we’re indifferent to. We provoke and prank and tease those who get under our skin and make us feel, people who incite our passion.”
― Chloe Liese, Only When It's Us

“And I’m platonically in love with you.”
“That was literally the boy-girl version of ‘no homo’, but I appreciate the sentiment.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.” Cardan gives us all a stern look, holding up a long-fingered hand with my stolen ruby ring still on one finger. “Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King