Marci

“Boys had no need of peripheral vision or a sense for being observed. It must be nice being biologically programmed with such arrogance, to be kings of the world.”
― Marie Tierney, Deadly Animals

“I don't know what's going to come out of me. It has to be perfect. It has to be irreproachable in every way.'
'Why?'
'To make up for it. To make up for the fact that it's me.”
― Suzanne Rivecca, Ugly, Bitter, and True

“I should be comforting Illa for her first heartbreak, I should've been stronger, set a better example, I should have confronted Eliza from the start, told James the truth about my feelings. But one thing I shouldn't have done was let fear and my self-guilt control everything I did. I was always scared of people leaving so I held on too tightly, allowing myself to suffer through pains that I never deserved instead of standing up for my own feelings. I wanted so badly for my relationships to work out that I let people hurt me. Over and over again. Love at the expense of losing myself. Losing my own voice.”
― Loridee De Villa, How to Be the Best Third Wheel

“It feels pointless. Even if he makes it back to Portland, stands on a cement sidewalk again, eats a french fry, he imagines a part of him will still be in these woods. Like a bit of fabric snagged on the leaves, he’s sure he’s already left a piece of himself here. Something he can’t get back.”
― Courtney Gould, What the Woods Took