Julia

“it leaves me feeling less like a whole person with a complete, unique makeup, and more like two halves of a girl who is never enough.”
― Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

“But sometimes, when you’ve known someone for years and they build up this image of you, it’s hard to talk about things that mess with that image. It feels like you’d be breaking some bond of trust between you and that person by being different than you were before. I don’t just mean subtle, slow changes. I mean, like, the big things that they never saw coming.”
― Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

“And my heart did desire--I wanted Gunnar and Erlend. Not as suitors. Of course not as suitors. But I wanted to continue holding on to these strange, beautiful feelings that drew us together--these moments between us that flourished with profound intimacy. We were equals, after all, even through I'd never get to possess the type of freedom they enjoyed as young bachelors.”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind

“I think my heart has always half belonged to the world and half belonged to me. But I would've given her the whole thing, had she asked me to.”
― Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All