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“Kindness isn’t something you are. It’s something you choose to be, every single moment of every single day.”
― A Curse of Roses
― A Curse of Roses
“I've never really thought about having a type. I guess my type is....beautiful girl. Which is a lot of them. Most of them? Pretty much all girls.”
― The Henna Wars
― The Henna Wars
“Alex saw very clearly how dangerous a book like Mary’s could become in the hands of such impressionable girls, such privileged girls: girls who kissed and fondled and laughed as they read each other passages out in the woods; girls whose parents' social standing had taught them that there was nothing at all in the world they could not subjugate, purchase, or ignore; girls who set fires only to watch as others tried, and failed, to put them out.”
― Plain Bad Heroines
― Plain Bad Heroines
“So glory to the queers who live to see the credits roll”
― Please Come Off-Book
― Please Come Off-Book
“Grief cannot feed you, though it fills you.”
― The Mercies
― The Mercies
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