“I am not winning any arguments because I know how to hurt someone. How does that prove that you're right? How does being stronger or more vicious prove anything, except that all this talk about honor is stupid? Where's the honor in being better at hurting somebody? Telling me I have to do this is insulting, as if I can't win any other way. As if I can't win in a better way.”
― In Other Lands
― In Other Lands
“I never was good at staying away from boys who look really good in ties.”
― Prep School Confidential
― Prep School Confidential
“People like us are not victims. We’re someone’s nightmare.”
― Rhapsodic
― Rhapsodic
“Not all monsters were three-ton reptiles with poisonous breath. Many wore human faces.”
― The Hidden Oracle
― The Hidden Oracle
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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