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Ashley McBride
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“Reading love stories isn’t frivolous. It’s profound. It’s not escape, it’s the opposite. Trust me, and trust yourself: love stories are the best kinds of therapy. They aren’t shallow, they’re deep. Start looking and you’ll see it, too. Love stories make us better at love. In all directions. And getting better at love of course, means getting better at life.”
― The Love Haters
― The Love Haters
“Better and worse don’t matter with us-they don’t-because it’s all the fucking better with you. And what the hell is simpler than that?”
― Fake Skating
― Fake Skating
“Maybe this isn’t the kind of love that deserves to exist. Maybe it’s the kind that wars start over. The kind that topples empires and never leaves the world better than it found it.”
― The Night We Met
― The Night We Met
“That longing to be looked at lovingly? That longing to be lovable … that’s really also so much about wanting to be valued, and seen, and connected, and safe, and just deeply, fundamentally okay? Maybe we didn’t have to outsource that. Maybe we could fill that longing for ourselves.”
― The Love Haters
― The Love Haters
“Sure, I thought. It's super important for me, as a senior, to continually relearn that I hate high school.”
― Fake Skating
― Fake Skating
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