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"Victor and Eli should just get married at this point. They are just bros in love who wanna kill each other 😭" — Sep 25, 2024 04:58AM
"Victor and Eli should just get married at this point. They are just bros in love who wanna kill each other 😭" — Sep 25, 2024 04:58AM
“Why do things have to be so complicated?” “Ah, the eternally wise words of Avril Lavigne.”
― Loveless
― Loveless
“I loved the idea in theory - having a sexy little adventure in a dark room in someone else's house with someone you've been on-and-off flirting with for a couple of months - but the reality? Having to actually touch genitals with someone? Ew.”
― Loveless
― Loveless
“Kissing a stranger you'd never see again, kissing someone whose name you didn't even know, just to feel a little high in that moment. Just to feel the warmth of someone's skin on yours. Just, for a while, to feel purely alive. God. I wished I could do that. But the idea of trying to get with any of these people--no matter their gender--was, honestly, unnerving. It made me feel itchy. Shivery, maybe. It filled my stomach with a weird, horrible dread, and a warning siren went off in my brain. It felt like my antibodies were fighting it off.”
― Loveless
― Loveless
“I didn't know what my hobbies were anymore, except yearning for romance and reading fanfiction.”
― Loveless
― Loveless
“It was because of all of that, no doubt, that this new identity felt like a loss, when in reality, it should have been a beautiful discovery.”
― Loveless
― Loveless
#ClassicsCommunity 2021 Reading Challenge
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