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“It was hard to come to terms with something that didn’t make sense, like a tragic untimely death or a breakup that came out of nowhere. How can you be at peace when you don’t know what you did to deserve it or what you could have done to make things different? I couldn’t wrap my brain around how I’d misjudged Jason to such a high degree, how I could think he was that in love with me, when clearly he wasn’t. It made me question my entire sense of self. Like finding out your hero isn’t a hero at all and you’re just too blind to know the difference.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“Mother’s gone is a fact coursing through me. Turned to foam. And somehow I’m alive still.”
― Mona Awad, Rouge

“I think about the many layers, the many ingredients, the many sophisticated formulas right now shielding me from oxidizing free radicals while also keeping me hydrated.”
― Mona Awad, Rouge

“That was what scared me most, that the thing that I had been working toward so harshly was something that, in a split second, I didn’t even care about.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip