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“It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“You light a fire early in your girlhood. You stoke it and tend it. You protect it at all costs. You don't let it rage into a mountain of light, because that's not becoming of a girl. You keep it secret. You let it burn. You look into the eyes of other girls and see their fires flickering there, offer conspiratorial nods, never speak aloud a near-unbearable heat, a growing conflagration.

You tend the flame because if you don't you're stuck, in the cold, on your own, doomed to 'seasonal layers', doomed to 'practicality', doomed to 'this is just the way things are', doomed to 'settling' and 'understanding' and 'reasoning' and 'agreeing' and 'seeing it another way' and 'seeing it his way' and 'seeing it from all the other ways but your own'.”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

“Every woman a universe.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“Sometimes you have to feel it because it deserves to be felt”
― Casey McQuiston