Tess Sharpe > Quotes

“But my heart isn't simple or straightforward. It's a complicated mess of wants and needs, boys and girls: soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“What didn't kill me didn't make me stronger; what didn't kill me made me into a victim.
But I made me stronger. I made me into a survivor.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“We walk into the rest of our lives together, not knowing it'll end before it's truly started.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“There is no normal. There is just a bunch of people pretending there is. There's just different levels of pain. Different stages of safe. The biggest con of all is that there's a normal.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I don't say what I'm thinking. I don't tell him how lucky he is, that he can just sit there and admit it, sheepish, but unashamed. Like it's his right. Like it's okay, because she's supposed to belong to someone like him, instead of someone like me.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“I’d tear the whole world apart for you"

"And I'd burn it down for you”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I fell like a star and she was the end of the world. A cataclysmic crash of two people. Never to be the same. Never getting back up. Not unless we were doing it together.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“It was Mina this whole time, wasn’t it?"

I give him the only thing I can: the cold, hard truth. The one that’ll rewrite every memory he has - of him and me, her and me, the two of them, all three of us: "It’ll always be Mina.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“It was the perfect meet-cute, except when you’re a girl who likes other girls, there’s this little additional dance, because what if she doesn’t? So you’re not looking for red flags like a girl does with a guy—you’re looking for rainbow ones.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“She was in love with you,” he says. “And I don’t think she got to tell you, did she?”

My heart lurches, seizes inside my chest, fluttering to life at the words I’ve always wanted to hear. I shake my head. Tears spill down my cheeks.

“She loved you. She wanted to be with you. That’s why she told me about herself. She said she’d made her choice. It was you. I think it was always you.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“I'll choose you. No matter how hard it is. No matter what people say. Every time, I'll choose you. It's up to you to choose me back.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“I hate the whole " what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" saying. It's bullshit. Sometimes what kills you is worse. Sometimes what kills you is preferable. Sometimes what doesn't kill you messes you up so bad it's always a fight to make it through what you left with.
What didn't kill me didn't make me stronger; what didn't made me a victim.
But I made me stronger. I made me into a survivor.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Practically everyone thinks they're smarter than a teenage girl. It's what makes being one so powerful, if you know how to use that giant mistake of an assumption.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“This we share. Scars and knowledge and broken saftey that was never reallty there in the first place, because we were born to bad apples.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Bad ideas are sometimes necessary." It sounds so much like an excuse, it's such an addict thing to say, that it makes my skin crawl.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“I was raised for a kind of slaughter. But I grew into a huntress instead. One who always hits her target. No matter what.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Her fingers bite into my arm, and I squeeze her wrist tight where I'm holding on to her, because this is what we're good at: hurting each other.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“We're all gonna die because I waited for the bacon donuts”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“We’re both girls whose bones got forged from secrets instead of steel. No wonder we snapped together like magnets.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Came into the world with a lie on my lips”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I'd never felt more instantly connected to a person in my life. I didn't love her immediately. I was already too wary for that. But I recognized something in her, something I wanted to be but couldn't even articulate yet: free.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I am so sick of crying over them...those girls and what happened to each of them. My mother and what she dragged me into... and how I clawed myself out.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“She's staring at me with a bomb and her brilliance between us, and I'm twisting a paper towel fuse with the kind of trust I didn't think I could give another person.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Like there aren't years of denial and heaps of lies and boys who touched our bodies but never had a chance at our hearts.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“There’s this long road ahead. It’s never-ending, because you don’t get over losing someone. Not completely. Not when she was a part of you. Not when loving her broke you as much as it changed you.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“i want to shoot him. i should shoot him. Ashley would. Rebecca wouldn't know how. Samantha would maybe consider it. Haley would for sure. Katie showed me first what i was capable of.

so where does that leave me?”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“She should know how good I am at pretending. It's all we do. I pretend that I don't hurt, that I want Cody, that I don't want her, that I'm not taking too many pills, that my virginity had been important. It hadn't been. It only means something when it's with the right person. And I couldn't have her.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“If you think I didn’t stab that asshole, you have not been paying attention. Because that’s exactly what I did.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“there's no solid ground,. i learn to dance on a tilting one instead.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“My heart has a piece of Wes wrapped around it like a bandage. My skin will hold the memory of him as permanent, because you don’t forget the first person to touch you with love after life’s taught you all touch is fear and pain.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been