Jade

“You cannot fix me because I am not broken. And even though everything has changed, I am still more than I've ever been. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“She hadn't learned, no one had taught her ... that the things you want, you never get them. And if you do, they're not what you thought they'd be. But you'd still do anything to keep them. Because you'd wanted them for so long.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“She was lost in that deep and certain sense that there was nothing beyond her own experience. As if there were only one way things could go, the years leading you down a corridor to the room where your inevitable self waited--embryonic, ready to be revealed. How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“And if you find someone with a head made of colors and a heart made of secrets, try to love them like they need to be loved. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say