Leila

“I thought that it was more likely the opposite. I must have shut grief out. Found it in books. Cried over fiction instead of the truth. The truth was unconfined, unadorned. There was no poetic language to it, no yellow butterflies, no epic floods. There wasn't a town trapped underwater or generations of men with the same name destined to make the same mistakes. The truth was vast enough to drown in.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years.   -”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“i bet you regret making an enemy out of me.   -”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. I'd wake up every morning and think, 'This will end in flames.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On