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“Interrogate your instincts. Insecurity isn’t shameful. Attraction isn’t an embarrassment. Interpersonal affection isn’t a side note to be glossed over. Whatever the nature of the material that forms between two people, it’s the backbone of literature.”
― Riley Redgate, Final Draft

“Maybe Nazarenko’s guidance would puncture her, but something would grow back over the injury, not scar tissue but armor, gleaming and valuable.”
― Riley Redgate, Final Draft

“there was something in me that was sick of fear and aw, of gazing at the heavens and wondering what someone would allow me”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Only me. It had always only been me.

I'd just needed to believe in her.

In me.”
― Meg Cabot, Jinx