“Even though my brain was a mess, what kept my soul whole was the warmth of the hands holding mine on both sides”
― Almond
― Almond
“He's always going to be old. He has to be. That's the only way I can stay young and dripping with beauty.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“When those things happened, they learned that although those inches may add up to miles, sometimes those miles were only inches after all.”
― My Best Friend's Exorcism
― My Best Friend's Exorcism
“Somehow I sensed what was coming for me even then. Really, though, what girl doesn’t? It looms over you, that threat of violence. They drill the danger into your head until it starts to feel inevitable. You grow up wondering when it’s finally going to happen.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
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