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“Even girls made of stars are captives, bound at the wrists and traded like property. Even girls made of stars aren't asked, aren't believed, aren't considered worth the effort unless they can offer something in return.
Even girls made of stars buy into those lies sometimes.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“This. This is why I never said anything. Because no one ever believes the girl.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“Because when they thought the stars were sticking to her, really all the loneliness and sadness were falling off. The stars were underneath.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“It’s changed me forever, but changed doesn’t have to mean broken.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“It's such a little thing, this skirt. For other girls, maybe it's makeup or a sport or having sex or not having sex or writing or music or kicking ass in school or wearing your hair so it looks like the sun's unruly rays. I think every girl has a thing or two, tiny details in her life that say This is me. I'm done hiding. I'm done feeling ashamed.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“And I'm not sure I ever will recover from what Mr. Knoll did. Not fully. It's changed me forever, but changed doesn't have to mean broken.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“We are worth the telling. We are worth the fight. We are worth a good life and love after.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“What else is there for any girl to do, when everyone but her can just forget everything like a random bad dream?”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“Belief isn't easy. It isn't black and white.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“Thank you for coming to save me.” She laughs, but it’s soft. “I didn’t save you. I can’t save anyone.” “You can. You did.” “I just hate that we hurt like this, you know?” “What do you mean?” She grabs my hand and squeezes. “I think about the things we’ve talked about in Empower. Articles we’ve read about all the girls who were thrown away by boys like they meant nothing. All the times a girl’s voice seemed to mean less than a boy’s. All the times the courts sent out a shit ruling on a rape case. It never really hit me, you know? I mean, it did, but not like this. I never thought it’d be my story. Or yours. I never wanted to let this be our story.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“Mom . . . Dad . . . I need to tell you guys something.” For Hannah. For Charlie. For all the girls whose names I’ll never know. For me. Girl made of flesh and bone.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“My belief seems to break her. It breaks me, too. To believe one person is to disbelieve another.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“I still kept so much from her at that time, but she made me feel like, someday, I wouldn't anymore - she made me feel so many somedays.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“The best lies are layered in between solid truths.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“However, this is the book I needed, and I hope, in some ways, it’s the book you needed too. This is the book that reminded me that despite a system and a culture that is perpetually against us, that lets our oppressors go free, that disbelieves our words, there is hope. There is love. There is comfort. There is healing. There is life after abuse. A good life. It’s not an easy one. It’s not the same one we had before. But it is still ours. And nothing and no one will take it from us. We are worth the telling. We are worth the fight. We are worth a good life and love after.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“This is okay?" he asks.
"Yes."
The word explodes through me, empowering and sexy, and I can't get my bra off fast enough.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“But there are too many other unsaid things that keep me from saying anything at all.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“Hannah pulls the hair elastic from her ponytail and flicks the rubber band to the asphalt. She never breaks her stride, but she slides her fingers through her shiny strands and tousles them into something slightly less smooth and tame.
It's not the beautiful, tangled mess it usually is.
But it's close.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“I didn't break then and I'm not breaking now.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“In my heart’s sequestered chambers lie truths stripped of poet’s gloss .”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“You know I’m very proud of you. It takes a brave person to challenge the institutional misogyny of the patriarchal system.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“Because she was worth the telling.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“I just want to move on.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“Charlie had known she's liked girls since she was twelve, so that was no secret. And I knew I did as well, but I liked boys, too, and it took me a while to figure out I could like both in different ways and for different reasons and that was actually a thing.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“Next to me, a car slows and I stiffen. Immediately, I realize the sky is dark, and my eyes peel through my surroundings for some place to run or hide.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“I'm delirious, furious with this guy in front of me using words like LET and SLUTTY.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“Is that what you want to do?"
"Honestly? I don't know."
…
"But," I go on, "I don't know what else I'd do.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“I could tell her. I could tell Charlie anything. I HAVE told her everything. Everything except this. But it's been so long.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“She's not a big fan of surprises.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“I shift the basketball from hand to hand, hating his tone, as though we're the only two levelheaded people on earth and everyone else is full of shit.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars