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Some Girls Do Quotes
Some Girls Do
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Jennifer Dugan29,834 ratings, 3.69 average rating, 3,752 reviews
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Some Girls Do Quotes
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“Love is letting someone have the power to hurt you in ways you haven’t even thought of yet.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“I'm not spending my life pretending I'm something I'm not, or making myself smaller and quieter, just because someone else thinks I should.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“[...] but activism isn't something that happens in just one way or in just one place. There will always be more battles, and beating yourself up about not being able to do it all, all at once, doesn't do anyone any good.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“You need this? Morgan, my coming out is mine. It’s not something to slap in your win column so you can feel better about yourself.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“So what if she’s a mess? Maybe we all are. But what if she’s meant to be my mess, and I’m meant to be hers?”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“She shakes her head. "Because Tyler is a boy," she says softly. Resigned. "And girls aren't supposed to like other girls."
"Well some girls do," I say, echoing her words from the shop.”
― Some Girls Do
"Well some girls do," I say, echoing her words from the shop.”
― Some Girls Do
“Morgan makes laughing feel easy, like happiness is the default instead of something always just out of reach.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“Activism isn’t something that happens in just one way or in just one place. There will always be more battles, and beating yourself up about not being able to do it all”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“My whole life might be a never-ending series of question marks right now, but this I'm sure of. This I want.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“What is time when you’re wasted on stolen whiskey on your crush’s couch?”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“Unfortunately, it also didn’t allow girls kissing other girls—something, you know, I really like doing.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“Wow", she breathes when I'm finally done. And I think I want to live here, in the space of that "wow," In that one little syllable she's managed to stuff so full of adoration and joy.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“This is my area,” I say. She stops at the bulletin board I’ve filled up with pictures of models posing with cars. All of them are women. She looks at me, a smirk on her face. “Nice pics.” “I just really like the cars?” I say with a fake wince. “Mm-hmm, yeah, all of these women have really, really nice . . . cars,” she says, then bursts out laughing so hard she snorts, and, oh my god, I love her. I mean, not really, but still.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“I left it as a reminder of its rough times or whatever. You can buff them out and paint over them, but they’re still there. Still a part of you, and that has to be okay, right? You have to live with it, but it’s not the end of the world.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“If somebody doesn’t think we deserve to love and be loved the way we want, with whatever person we want, then they don’t deserve our time or attention anyway.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“I get up to follow her without thinking. I mean, I should wash my hands after touching all that greasy food, right? Right. “Are you stalking me now?” Ruby asks, narrowing her eyes in the mirror when I step inside the ladies’ room. She’s fixing her makeup, sliding an inky black line across her eyelid with near-surgical precision. “No.” Kind of. “Right.” She doesn’t look convinced.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“She seems relieved, like maybe she thought I was going to hit on her or try to convert her or something. And even though I’m smiling, inside my stomach hurts. Because why does this always have to be this huge, awkward thing? Just because I like girls doesn’t mean I like every girl.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“I try to push myself up, scraping my arm in the process, which is when Morgan appears beside me, barefoot in sharp gravel, and no, no, no, she shouldn’t be out here because of me. She should be inside in her little sleep shorts, sleeping.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
“But the nonobjective part of my brain still really wants her name and number and to know if she’s single and how she would feel about dating a marginally disgraced track star of the female persuasion.”
― Some Girls Do
― Some Girls Do
