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She Gets the Girl She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott
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“Some things have to fall apart because they don’t belong together, but some things belong so much they could never break.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“If you spend your life focusing on the never, then you’ll never actually do anything. You gotta cut it out with that self-pity shit. You think you’re this little victim that no one is ever going to like, but how is anyone supposed to get the chance if you won’t even speak above a whisper?”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“There's something reassuring in books and stories older than you are. Still talked about long after they've been written and long after their writers die. When the world around you is on fire, there's a certain kind of comfort in that.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“But love isn't something you scrape by for.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“love you too, Alex Blackwood,” she says, and it’s all the things I never knew an “I love you” could be, meeting me exactly as I am, without a single condition. It’s coming home instead of running away.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Some things have to fall apart because they don't belong together, but some things belong together so much they could never break.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“I just want you to be more you, instead of a little ball of quiet anxiety in the corner of the party.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“When you spend as much time as I have worrying about what to say and how to say it and it still comes out wrong, it just becomes easier to not say anything at all.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“All of it. Leading me here. Leading me… to her.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“And for once I actually do.”
Alyson Derrick, She Gets the Girl
“She’s looking at me like I’m the person she loves most in this world and I just broke her heart, which is so much worse.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“If you spend your life focusing on the never, then you’ll never actually do anything.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Alex Blackwood does not get frazzled. Definitely not over Molly Parker.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“I know I’m probably the only gay on earth who feels this way, but… I can’t stand show tunes.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Whatever the trouble is, don't run from it. Don't end up old and alone like me.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“And… all at once I see the truth. She never wanted to listen to me. Never was really there for me. She just wanted to control me.
This isn’t love.
The fighting. The lack of trust. Feeling like I’m walking on eggshells or always trying to get out of trouble. Being manipulated over and over again, never really knowing what she wants from me.
If anything, it reminds me of, well… my parents. What I thought was normal.
I guess I thought if I just put my head down and scraped by, it would be fine. We could make it work.
But love isn’t something you scrape by for.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“That's how I knew you were lying that night. I know the real you. Just like you know the real me.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Like I’m so in love with you, Molly Parker.” And… it feels right. The words I’ve been so scared of for years suddenly come easier than I ever thought possible. “I love you too, Alex Blackwood,” she says,”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Like my lesbian ass hasn’t religiously watched the movie adaptation with Helena Bonham Carter a thousand times more than that.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Phone number?” I finally manage to cough out. “No, Molly, their social security number.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Did you go over yet, or have you just been creepily standing by the front door this whole time?”
“Creepily standing by the front door,” Molly replies, hoisting up the straps on her enormous backpack.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Todo.
Todo me ha traído hasta aquí.
Todo me ha traído hasta ella”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Es tan inesperado que el corazón empieza a latirme desbocado.
Y, a decir verdad, no sé si es por la amenaza constante de una caída... o por Molly.
Y no estoy segura de querer descubrir la respuesta.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Quizá no es esa chica que lo consigue todo sin esfuerzo.
Quizá se le da tan bien ayudarme a mostrarme al mundo porque ella también ha tenido que hacerlo.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Supongo que podríamos decir que Shakespeare dice dos cosas. Una, que el amor es sufrimiento, porque es probable que te
enamores de alguien a quien apenas conoces. Y, dos, que mucha gente está enamorada del amor y no de la persona en cuestión.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Te crees que eres una víctima que nunca caerá bien a nadie, pero ¿cómo van a tener la oportunidad si no te atreves a hacer más que susurrar?”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“There’s something reassuring in books and stories older than you are. Still talked about long after they’ve been written and long after their writers die. When the world around you is on fire, there’s a certain kind of comfort in that.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Love is suffering, probably because you fall in love with someone you hardly know. And plenty of people are in love with love and not the actual person.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Puede que no me merezca una chica como Molly —digo en voz baja—. Pero estoy segurísima de que me merezco algo mejor que esto.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl
“Puede que no me merezca una chica como Molly —digo en voz baja—. Pero estoy
segurísima de que me merezco algo mejor que esto.”
Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

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