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“Good enough for whom? For people who are trapped in a life that is not of their own making? Surely you can see that they merely want you to be trapped with them, so they will feel less alone in their emptiness. Be careful, Martha, you’ll become blind to your own value if you keep looking through the eyes of the bourgeoisie!”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“I’d forgotten how nerve-wracking it could be, asking someone if they wanted to hang out with you. As youngsters, we do it all the time, making new friends. But when you get older, it feels as though there is so much more on the line – the rejection is so much harder to take.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Lost Bookshop

“Now I understood why there was such a thin line between love and hate. Love was so powerful, so fucking consuming. Gone unrequited, it turned sour and bitter. It twisted into anger and loss… How easy it would be for it to shift into hate.”
― Cambria Hebert, Wish

“Love is never just one emotion. It is lust, jealousy, anger, care, happiness and when you blend so much colour on a palette, what do you get?”
My attention is entirely too focused on his finger twirling my hair and barely managed to murmur, “Something dark”
― Wendy Heiss, Spring Guardians & Songbirds