“Alas, a novel must be written from a place of innocence! What's that you say? Beautiful feelings make bad literature? Bullshit.”
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
“You can’t believe everything you hear, though. Girls are always whittling little weapons to stab each other with.”
― The Cheerleaders
― The Cheerleaders
“They’re convinced that if they ever did do something hurtful, they’d either have to kill the other guy or die themselves it's why they avoid conflict as a rule. These friends know all kinds of expressions that could smooth things over at least ten different gradations for conveying what essentially means no. Long before any type of conflict can emerge they are exchanging gestures of diplomacy. And while they dance across the surface with their smiles and their handshakes in their minds they are both saying the same thing: what an idiot!”
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
“But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting.”
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
“I start to speak, but he stops me with a gesture. “And you.” He looks at me, his lips curving in something that’s not quite a smile; it’s more and less than that. “I knew little else, but I always knew you.” And when he kisses me, I feel as though I can finally breathe again.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
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