gavin

“Broken girls, both of us, growing up into women with cracks plastered rough over where smooth should be.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“there's no solid ground,. i learn to dance on a tilting one instead.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Dan's last thought before he fell was of her, of how pretty she looked just then, poised as if dancing, her lips parted and her dark braid coming undone”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“What do you think you’ll lose?”
“I don’t know.” I check your amber eyes for signs of impatience, but you don’t seem mad. Just curious.
“I’ll never make you tell me anything you don’t want to tell me,” you say. “But you are right, Callie. Sometimes it will feel like you’re losing something.”
I reach for another tissue. Wet, wadded-up tissues keep piling up in my lap.
“But Callie,” you say. “If we work hard, you’ll find something much better to take the place of whatever you give up. I promise.”
― Patricia McCormick, Cut