Mariana

“i want to shoot him. i should shoot him. Ashley would. Rebecca wouldn't know how. Samantha would maybe consider it. Haley would for sure. Katie showed me first what i was capable of.

so where does that leave me?”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I am so sick of crying over them...those girls and what happened to each of them. My mother and what she dragged me into... and how I clawed myself out.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I'd never felt more instantly connected to a person in my life. I didn't love her immediately. I was already too wary for that. But I recognized something in her, something I wanted to be but couldn't even articulate yet: free.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“There's a choice, when you know your fate's to be hunted and gobbled up and used.
You can give in like it's inevitable or you can turn the tables.
I was raised for a kind of slaughter. But I grew into a huntress instead. One who always hits her target. No matter what.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been