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“Girls get under each other's skin. We get too close, too attached, too crazy, and then we can't let go. Our claws sink too deep. When we separate, we tear each other apart.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

tags: girls, love, romance

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“Strength is not in the body, it’s in the mind. It doesn’t lie in flexing your muscles and crushing those who oppose you. It lies in being the last one standing. By any means. At any cost.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

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“Then why’d you do it?”

“Jealousy,” she said without hesitation. “It always comes down to something crude. Don’t kid yourself, Keating. It’s human nature.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

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“Angels trying to scar themselves, bored of perfection.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

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“He looked at me in a way that felt like being touched, like a blind man seeing with his fingers, mapping my bones and skin in his mind. I felt weirdly exposed. Seen.

“It’s not what you think,” he said.

“What do I think?”

“I’m not that good. I can’t read minds.”

Then read my body, I thought, but he only smiled.

“Tell me something.” He leaned closer, his voice raspy at the edges, charred. “If you hate human connection so much, why come with us?”

Because I don’t hate it. I hate how much I need it.

Because you’re the ones I was waiting for.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

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