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“It was one of those moments when I had to take a mental step back and wonder when the hell I’d turned into an adult. And when the hell would I start feeling like one.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Losing is never the end of the world. Losing is where the learning starts.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“For being a shitty team player and having a craptastic attitude. Newsflash, you want to act like a jerk, do it at home to your parents who made you this way. Now, run.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“I didn’t have to be out there making a difference for thousands of people in order to matter. I could make my difference one person at a time. Starting with me. There was nowhere else in the world I’d rather be. And that was the secret, I realized. It didn’t matter what my salary was. Whether or not I had a corner office and an assistant. This feeling, this contentment, was what mattered most.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Don’t waste your time in relationships that lack respect.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“It’s like I missed the day in school when they told us how to be an adult.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Social media is how you fantasize your life should be. Not the reality of”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Our strength comes from our diversity, our willingness to change, to fight inequality, to explode scientific advancement.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“Do I really look like my prime years are behind me?” I asked Vicky. “Oh, sweetie.” She tucked a stray lock of limp hair behind my ear. “Yes. But that doesn’t mean they are.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“You have to fight for what you deserve. What you want is no more or less important than what anyone else wants.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up

“Why do women believe they need an occasion to dress up? Dress up for life, goddammit!”
― Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up

“We’re not about cutting people out of our lives. We’re about refusing to accept anything less than what we deserve. About realizing that we’re all important here despite mistakes or bad relationships or lackluster careers.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up

“You . . . accept me. Exactly as I am. But you still change me for the better.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up

“I’m strongest when you’re around, but I’m going to get better at using that strength, even when you’re not standing beside me.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up

“You’re not even worth a midweek leg shave.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up

“The Castle family operated by a strict set of unspoken rules that must never be tested.
1. Their mother was a saint and must be treated thusly and obeyed in all things, lest the sky come crashing down.
2. When their mother wasn’t around, Steven was next in line to the throne. It had been that way since Georgie was a child, and even though she thought it was bullshit, following his directives was as deeply ingrained as the Bob’s Burgers theme music.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up

“I’m going to feed you before I introduce you to God.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up

“You’re the one who has to live your life. Don’t apologize to other people for the decisions you make for yourself.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“At some point, you have got to stop worrying so much about what everyone else needs and start thinking about what you need.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“When you trust someone to see you for who you really are, the betrayal is a thousand times worse than if you hadn’t handed them the weapons in the first place,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“You know what they say about fine. Fucked up. Insecure. Neurotic. And emotional,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Sooner or later, you have to accept that you’re not responsible for other people’s choices. Worse, sometimes you can’t fix what’s wrong with them.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Some people don’t know what to do with their pain,” Naomi said, looking out the window again. “So they take it out on whoever is nearby.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“The people you love weren't algebra: to be calculated, subtracted, or held at arm's length across a decimal point.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“we all do what we think is best. Sometimes we make terrible mistakes, sometimes we do the right thing. Sometimes we never know. We just have to hope”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People

“Q: Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones. What am I? A: Memories — A FOLK RIDDLE”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People

“The people who are stuck between here and there, waiting. It reminds me of winter, how everything is all pale and cold and full of nothing, and all you can do is wait for spring.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People

“There is no justice, Malcolm had told her once, but we stand for it anyway. Justice is the ideal, but justice is not the reality.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls

“Books, Sonia had decided, were what she would live with when she finally left this place. She would work in a library—any library, anywhere. She’d sweep the floors if she had to. But she’d work in a library, and she’d read the books every day for the rest of her life.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls

“Books were her salvation. As a child, she’d had a shelf of childhood favorites that she loved enough to read over and over again. But after, during the hospital stay and the long voyage and the cold days in Idlewild’s dreary hallways, books became more than mere stories. They were her lifeline, the pages as essential to her as breathing.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls