Joanna

“When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.”
― Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

“She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him. ”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Popular Girl

“I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but I feel like when you believe that something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can’t help yourself.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“A gentleman holds my hand.
A man pulls my hair.
A soulmate will do both.”
― Alessandra Torre