The Fiercest Joy Quotes

“I hate it here. I hate everyone here. I hate that I am so different. I love it here and I want to belong and I know that I never will.”
― Shana Abe, The Fiercest Joy

“There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you’re quit of them.”
― Shana Abe, The Fiercest Joy

“I lay in my bed and tried not to miss him, to miss the entire experience of him. I wanted to feel the shape of him beside me. I wanted him to touch my hair. To kiss me, long and velvety slow.”
― Shana Abe, The Fiercest Joy

“It’s funny how your life can come apart in an instant. How you can feel safe and satisfied one moment, and the next you’re dangling over an abyss, no warning, no quarter. You’re absolutely about to fall.”
― Shana Abe, The Fiercest Joy

“Mrs. Westcliffe, our headmistress, had a ramrod spine and ebony hair and lips that could pinch off her words with such knife-edged clarity you wondered that you didn’t bleed to death from a mere, “Good morning.”
― Shana Abe, The Fiercest Joy