To Make Monsters Out of Girls Quotes

“love does not need to be tragic in order for it to be good.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“that girl is mine,' the monster-boy growled.

'that's where you're wrong. that girl belongs to the coffee shops & the bookstores & the treetops- but mostly she just belongs to herself,' he said, unafraid.- thank you.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“didn't anyone ever warn you not to try to trick a girl who reads? she's already seen everything.- don't try to waste your time again.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“sometimes no closure tells us more than the closure ever could.- some people were never worth your words.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“you remind me of the way flowers bloom so furiously in the spring, like the loudest fucking declaration of survival you'll ever witness. as if to say, 'i'm back. i'm here. i'm alive. i won't waste a single second dwelling on what it's like to be anywhere else.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“falling in love
with you

was
like that

knowing,
heart-stopping,
airless,
upside-down

moment
right before

a fatal
collision.

-brace for impact.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“don't trust anyone with a cross hanging from their neck & hate buried inside their chest.- take it from me.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“there was
no comfort

to be
found in

the
pages

that once
pulled me

through
it all.

-you took things i didn't know you could take.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“he told me he never learned how to swim; i told him it was okay because i did. - i will carry him across treacherous seas.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“you remind me of the way flowers bloom so furiously in the spring, like the loudest fucking declaration of survival you’ll ever witness. as if to say, “i’m back. i’m here. i’m alive. i won’t waste a single second dwelling on what it’s like to be anywhere else.” although, you also remind me of the way flowers always—without fail—wither where they stand & slowly but surely return to the earth, particle by particle, back to the home they keep most of the year. - where they know they truly belonged all along.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“there’s no such thing as deserving abuse.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“You see,
it's not exactly in this girl's nature
to be torn
in
two.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“moons after it ended, you still snuck up to my mailbox to deliver bundles of letters-

half love notes, half hate notes.

when you found someone new, all your letters came back to you marked [returned to sender].- find a new partner in crime.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“if all else fails, i'll chew up the remaining shards. (i've swallowed much sharper words than this.)”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“the only way I can remember what happened is if i sit down & pray to the paper & hope the pen is a believer.- to make up for the fact that i'm not.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“my new love— he’s got a green thumb. where you neglected me & let the weeds overtake, he’s always so very nurturing. & you’ll never guess what— he made for damn sure he repotted me where i could stretch towards the light and finally outgrow you.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“if my poetry classes taught me anything about this life, it's that you were the ted hughes to my sylvia plath & now he's the robert browning to my elizabeth barrett.- he dropkicked my heart back to life.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“there is no slow blast of fireworks. there are no heartstrings finally coming to relax underneath the table between us. there is no magical moment of lost love found. inside this, we are not allie & noah. no, in this moment i am allie & you are lon. or maybe you are noah & i'm martha. i can't be certain.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“that girl is mine,” the monster-boy growled. “that’s where you’re wrong. that girl belongs to the coffee shops & the bookstores & the treetops—but mostly she just belongs to herself,” he said, unafraid. - thank you.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“sometimes no closure tells us more than the closure ever could. - some people were never worth your words.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“yet here i am. i stand before you the woman who managed to become everything you said she could never one day be.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls

“darling, you are worthy.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls