Jade Paris

“he’s been going around telling other kids in our grade that he doesn’t like me because I’m a “fucking prude.”
― Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

“And then it happened. One of my TikToks, a video about very specific red flags in men, blew up. I declared that any man who calls The Wolf of Wall Street his favorite movie of all time, or who has an obsession with Tom Brady—not the Bucs or the Pats, just Tom Brady—should be jailed (a clear and obvious joke, but also … is it?). And it went viral.”
― Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

“No doubt you will,” he says quickly. “But that’s what it’s all about. Ain’t nothin’ ever going to be perfect. That’s life. Just tell her she’s pretty when she doesn’t feel it. Give her chocolate when she’s sad. Oh, and when she says the words it’s fine, she don’t actually mean it.”
― Hannah Gray, Puck Boy

“It was a life-shifting kiss. One of those that came only once in a lifetime. The kind that you didn’t want to mean more. You wanted it to be a lust-induced kiss in the dark, but you couldn’t even fool yourself. This one was everything.”
― K.A. Linde, The Wright Brother