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For the three days I was home, all I did was avoid my mom’s gaze and respond to her perfectly reasonable questions with one-word answers. I had reverted back to being a petulant child. Because the thing no one tells you about going away to
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“I promise you, two dozen words were not the difference between mediocrity and excellence. Make a habit of burning something to ash before expecting a rebirth.”
― Final Draft
― 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”
― Circe
― Circe
“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.”
― Final Draft
― 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.”
― Final Draft
― Final Draft
“Hannah gave a feral smile and let her dark eyes bore into Laila’s. This was one of several reasons people were terrified of her: the Hannah Park stare. If it weren’t enough that Hannah was beautiful, in the same way an ice storm or a forest fire was beautiful, she also had the habit of making more unbroken, intense eye contact than was comfortable for anybody.”
― Final Draft
― Final Draft
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