“The excuses we make for them are outrageous, but they’re nothing compared with the ones we make for ourselves.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“Well, I always tell my girls that it's better to mistrust people at first rather than trust them, and it's safer to suspect people of evil intentions rather than good ones...It sounds rather hard but we've got to be women of the world, haven't we?”
― Selected Stories
― Selected Stories
“I felt that you were more lonely than anybody else in the world,...and yet, perhaps, that you were the only person in the world who was really, truly alive. Born out of your time”
― Selected Stories
― Selected Stories
“It’s strange to know that whenever I remember myself at fifteen, I’ll think of this.”
― 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
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