Shaunna

“All emotion receded, pulled out like low tide, leaving my brain an empty ocean bottom”
― Laura Wiess

“It's all a lie. I said to myself. Romance. This notion that some guy is going to swoop and fall madly in love with me and change my life and make everything perfect. It's one big, horrible lie and I bought it. Hook, line, and a ten thousand-pound sinker. Or I guess I should say it's a lie for a girl like me. For Skye, that's another story. The first time Dakota kissed me, down at the hot tub, I remember thinking, this is too good to be true. But if something feels too good to be true, maybe it's not true. Maybe the truth is that Skye deserves him. She'll always be the winner. And I, pathetically, will always be me.”
― Carolyn Mackler, Tangled

“Why should I just sit around hoping it happens when maybe I can do something to make it happen?”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“I need to acknowledge that she may have controlled my past, but she doesn't have to dominate my present and my future, too”
― Carolyn Mackler, Guyaholic