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“Sometimes it's hard to know which qualities really define you, and which ones have been affixed to you by others so many times that you actually begin to believe them and claim them as your own.”
― They Wish They Were Us
― They Wish They Were Us
“It’s easy to convince yourself of something if you just pretend it’s the truth.”
― They Wish They Were Us
― They Wish They Were Us
“Why did the boys have the power? Why did they make the rules while we dealt with the consequences?”
― They Wish They Were Us
― They Wish They Were Us
“The world breaks little girls. It stomps out our will, our joy, our curiosity—and replaces them with disdain, cynicism, and the need to fit into neat and tiny boxes. I learned that young, in kindergarten, when the other kids called Stella a show-off for raising her hand during class, or when the boys in first grade said I was bossy for leading a reading circle. When Stella and I would overhear the other moms at the Elite Youth Runner’s Club: The Steckler sisters are just a little much. That’s how we were described while the boys were sprinting around the playground kicking and screaming, breaking and biting. The world doesn’t celebrate girls who take up space, who demand to be heard, who are just a little much.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“They say only the good die young, but that’s just a line in a stupid song we used to sing. It isn’t real. It isn’t true. I know that because Shaila Arnold was so many things—brilliant and funny, confident and wild. But honestly? She wasn’t all that good.”
― They Wish They Were Us
― They Wish They Were Us
“Raven has always been nice in the same way vanilla is nice but you’d rather have cookie dough.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“For a second, I wonder if they know me at all—or if I’ve changed so much that I barely remember myself.”
― The Counselors
― The Counselors
“I became a warning of what can happen when girls get too competitive, when we want too much.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“When I was little, I asked Mom why her name wasn't up there. She told me it was because being the best mom didn't count as an accolade, even though it was the most important job in the world.”
― The Legacies
― The Legacies
“The world breaks little girls. It stomps out our will, our joy, our curiosity—and replaces them with disdain, cynicism, and the need to fit into neat and tiny boxes.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“darkness”
― They Wish They Were Us
― They Wish They Were Us
“Their conversation continued as they debated the merits of Mario’s and Luigi’s, the two competing slice spots in town.”
― They Wish They Were Us
― They Wish They Were Us
“They wish they were us.”
― They Wish They Were Us
― They Wish They Were Us
“Life is so short, I am finally learning. But if I can love and be loved all at the same time, I’m not sure I mind.’ ”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“The world hadn’t yet told us that little girls don’t fight with fists, but with words. Laughable now, though, after everything that’s happened. The idea that girls don’t fight.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“sticking to the status quo.”
― They Wish They Were Us
― They Wish They Were Us
“someone else I know is guilty.”
― They Wish They Were Us
― They Wish They Were Us
“she’s breathless”
― They Wish They Were Us
― They Wish They Were Us
“The world doesn’t celebrate girls who take up space, who demand to be heard, who are just a little much.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“I’m good at being alone. I’ve had to be. I’ve learned to find friends in books and movies and all the adults who traipsed through our home with kind eyes and warm laughs.”
― The Counselors
― The Counselors
“Some kids are chosen at birth. Each town has them. Babies who come out all fresh and clean and start their lives with the subconscious understanding that, without a doubt, they will be special. Their lives will be easy. They will have wide smiles and long eyelashes, and they’ll be able to talk to anyone. They will find it easy to make people laugh, to disarm new acquaintances, to charm. They will be magnetic. Electric. Explosive. They will have a way about them that pulls you close.”
― The Counselors
― The Counselors
“in an hug.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“And I learned how much I could take, how I could survive even if I lost everything. I learned I was a warrior. I was indestructible.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“I kept my mouth shut but I knew what he meant. You girls. The obsessive ones. The focused ones. The ones who have enough grit and determination to break things and crush people and rip worlds apart. The ones who call bullshit when things aren’t fair. The ones who speak up and demand better. The ones who don’t fit into neat little boxes.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“The spiral continues until I remember something Mom once said: Everyone hates themselves a little. If you get over that, you survive. Sure, she said it when she was drunk and I was five. But I think it holds up.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“I always forget he can be cruel like this, slick and slippery when he doesn’t want to do something.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“Raven has always been nice, in the same way vanilla ice cream is nice but you’d rather have cookie dough.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
“rescinding”
― The Counselors
― The Counselors
“And for that, for his son’s mistakes, I was to blame.”
― They'll Never Catch Us
― They'll Never Catch Us
