J-ME

“Do you live here now Lola?" Not-Joe asks from behind the counter as I walk past him to the back of the store. "Because if so, I could show you how to run the register so I can go smoke a blunt." "I heard that," Oliver mumbles from across the store. He looks up as I pass and gives me a little smile. There are a thousand words in that tiny expression, and I don't speak the language.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“What happens when emotion is too big, when it fills the chest and the veins and the limbs? I imagine sunshine filling me until I shatter - leaving starburst-coated girl shrapnel strewn across this bed.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“Quinn is you, I want to say. Don't let him change you. Don't let him sexualize your journey from ruin to triumph”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“When she sits up, her long dark hair slides over her shoulders, covering her breasts. It's the contrast of the black against her milky skin, the way the ends of her hair just cover her nipples. Now I know why this view of a woman has been drawn a million times.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night