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“Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“The trick is to find that one person who can give it back as good as they can take it.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“Watching you pretend to hate the nickname is the best part of my day.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“I have a theory. Hating someone feels disturbingly similar to being in love with them. I've had a lot of time to compare love and hate, and these are my observations.
Love and hate are visceral. Your stomach twists at the thought of that person. The heart in your chest beats heavy and bright, nearly visible through your flesh and clothes. Your appetite and sleep are schredded. Every interaction spikes your blood with adrenaline, and you're in the brink of fight or flight. Your body is barely under your control. You're consumed, and it scares you.
Both love and hate are mirror versions of the same game - and you háve to win. Why? Your heart and your ego. Trust me, I should know.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“It's a corporate truth universally acknowledged that workers would rather eat rat skeletons than participate in group activities.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“I want to know what’s going on in your brain. I want to juice your head like a lemon.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“All I want to do is kiss you until I fall asleep. I want to slide in between your sheets, and find out what goes on inside your head, and underneath your clothes. I want to make a fool of myself over you.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“I love him so much it's like a thread piercing me. Punching holes. Dragging through. Stitching love into me. I'll never be able to untangle myself from this feeling. The color of love is surely this robin's-egg blue.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“When you get so little of someone, you take what you can get.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“I always thought you’d live underground somewhere, near the earth’s core,”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“Shyness takes so many different forms. Some people are shy and soft. Some, shy and hard. Or in Josh’s case, shy, and wrapped in military-grade armor. “Josh,”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“How somebody can’t recognize their own eyes, I’ll never know.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“He did not smile back, and somehow I feel like he’s been carrying my smile around in his breast pocket ever since. He’s one up.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“I’m probably not good at a lot of things, but I will try to be”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“He taught me things in the space of two minutes that the span of my lifetime did not.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“The Kissing Game goes like this, Shortcake. Press, retreat, tilt, breathe, repeat. Use your hands to angle just right. Loosen up until it’s a slow, wet slide. Hear the drum of blood in your own ears? Survive on tiny puffs of air. Do not stop. Don’t even think about it. Shudder a sigh, pull back, let your opponent catch you with lips or teeth and ease you back into something even deeper. Wetter. Feel your nerve endings crackle to life with each touch of tongue. Feel a new heaviness between your legs. The aim of the game is to do this for the rest of your life. Screw human civilization and all it entails. This elevator is home now. This is what we do now. Do not fucking stop. He”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“Since the moment I saw you. Since the moment you smiled at me, I felt like I was falling backward off a cliff. The feeling has never stopped. I’ve been trying to drag you down with me. In the worst, most ill-conceived and socially stunted way possible.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“I love the energy we create between us when we banter like this. It’s the most intense sensation of pleasure, knowing he’ll always have the perfect response ready. I’ve never known anyone like him; as addictive to talk to as he is to kiss. “Truth”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“Hating someone feels disturbingly similar to being in love with them.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“The art of holding hands is underrated and it’s embarrassing how much this simple act has me nearly breathless. The pads of each of his fingertips reach across the backs of my hands to my wrist. Large”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“If you knew the kind of little miracles happening every moment you breathe in, you wouldn’t be able to handle it. A valve could close and not open; an artery could split, you could die. At any moment. It’s nothing but miracles inside your tiny city.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“I wanted you here because I always want you with me.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“Maybe the only way to truly unite people is through battle and pain. Confrontation and competition. Maybe surviving something is the point.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“You're always beautiful”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“He sits in silence, and his eyes are definitely not the man I know. They’re wistful, lonely, and so beautiful I have to close mine. “I”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“His smile is worth a thousand of anyone else’s. I need a photograph. I need something to hold on to. I need this entire bizarre planet to stop spinning so I can freeze this moment in time.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“Both love and hate are mirror versions of the same game—and you have to win.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“No matter how I look, it never seems to faze him. He always looks at me exactly the same way.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“Here’s a fact. Hating someone is exhausting.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“Every day here is a challenge, a privilege, a sacrifice, and a frustration.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game