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“You looked up and away, as you did whenever I said something that made you wish I wasn't so stubborn or vague or difficult or indecisive. Or flippant. Or sarcastic. Those were some of the things you didn't like me to be. You rubbed your forehead. I seemed to make you tired. I seemed to make you wish I hadn't ever existed at all.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push

“I think we all wear armor. I think those who don’t are fools, risking the pain of being wounded by the sharp edges of the world, over and over again. But if I’ve learned anything from those fools, it is that to be vulnerable is a strength most of us fear. It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“The stars can go fuck themselves, for all I care,” I said. “And you can too, for that matter.”
― Elizabeth Briggs, Star Cursed

“Inside the bars, my strong, regular heart fuelled by youthful anger had restored to us our own territory; we’d established an area of freedom.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men