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“Youre so lovely when you're blushing," Warner says to me. "But I really wish you wouldn't waste your affections on someone who has to beg for your love.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“In the photos, ferns brush my thighs and sunlight streams through my hair, making me look like a wood nymph, like Persephone wandering her meadow, waiting for Hades to come.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Somehow I sensed what was coming for me even then. Really, though, what girl doesn't? It looms over you, the threat of violence. They drill the danger into your head until it starts to feel inevitable. You grow up wondering when it's finally going to happen.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“But loving somebody isn't perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it's a gut punch. That's why it's a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn't deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else's. It's sacred.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six