“She pressed her cheek against his heart and lay there, grateful for the time she’d had with him, however short or long it had been, grateful she had known him, grateful that once, when she was young, she had experienced a love so strong that it did not go away, that decades and distance and miles and children and lies and letters could never make it disappear. She held him in her arms and said to him all she needed to say.”
― The Stationery Shop
― The Stationery Shop
“I think you actually have to have all of your dreams come true to realize they are the wrong dreams.”
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“It’s strange to know that whenever I remember myself at fifteen, I’ll think of this.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“Girls in those stories are always victims, and I am not. And it doesn’t have anything to do with what Strane did or didn’t do to me when I was younger. I’m not a victim because I never wanted to be, and If I didn’t want to be, then I’m not. That’s how it works. The difference between rape and sex is state of mind. You can’t rape the willing, right?”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
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