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“I’ve learned that disappointment is a by-product of expectation. I no longer expect things from my mother, so she no longer has the power to make me spiral. You can’t change people; I know that now. And I will no longer concern myself with begging people to stay. Begging them to want me back. I’ll take what I can get from those who will give it.”
― Taylor Torres, The Two of Us

“five minutes is forever. Five minutes is the rest of your entire fucking stupid life.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“You said—you said that you loved me too.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Or he just wanted to be understood.” Her soft murmur echoes in the air, then she purses her lips as if regretting what she said. My body goes rigid. That’s the first fucking time someone ever said that about my less sophisticated version.”
― Rina Kent, God of Malice