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“‘You leaving shaped me. Your choices, they made me. I am who I am because of you! Because I love you!’
‘Don’t say it like a death sentence.’
‘Isn’t it?’”
¡qué dramática!

“Mel never knew a good world, so she never had the idea of one shatter. But she thinks Chloe might’ve thought the world was good and now she knows it’s not, and what a horrible way to learn.
But is there a good way to learn? She doesn’t think so.”

“wondering if it’s possible to love someone you don’t even know anymore”

“It’s too much to ask. It’s too much to know”

“‘I am the same person I’ve always been,’ Chloe says… she thinks: that’s what I’m afraid of”

“the order and rules get to you, make you want to screw up just for the messiness of it”

“Freedom’s just another thing to lose.
So I hold on tight”

“I think he’s already gone.
I just have to believe that it’s for now instead of forever”

“I have to belong to myself. How can I deny that… I can only accept such a deep truth.
It hurts, growing up”

“Your mother… she’s not real to you, not a person… until she is. Until she gets hurt or screws up so bad the illusion’s shattered and the truth’s left: she’s not infallible. Sometimes mothers are good. Sometimes they’re bad. Sometimes they’re bigots… addicts… abusers… all you can do is hope you’re strong enough to move through the world they try to make for you into one you make yourself”

“that’s the thing about terrible men. They can’t stand a woman’s well-earned joy”

“I don’t just belong to myself. I know myself”

“I met her, and I knew after one conversation. It was a deep-rooted fact, suddenly inside me like it had always been there: water is wet, fire is hot, this girl is going to change my life.
And then I knew her. And then it wasn’t this girl is going to change my life; it was this girl is my life”

“Cinderella doesn’t call her wicked stepmother wicked after all- the story does. All Cinderella wants is for that wicked woman to love her”

“What does it say about me, that this keeps happening? That I keep falling for girls who aren’t who they say they are?
I’d be kidding myself if I didn’t see the similarities behind the lies. They’re both strong. They’re both leaders. They both never listen.
Am I drawn to strength? To danger?
Or am I drawn to the loss in them because there’s so much in me?”

“I won’t be put on a pedestal. I’ll burn it down”

“there’s only so much forgiveness a person holds inside their skin, and I fear I’ve used much more than my fair share”

“I’ve never thought about last words before, and now everything is spilling out, in case I don’t come back to her this time. I need her to understand I was trying to be good. I was trying to be better”

“I feel utterly hopeless when i say, ‘it’s a coincidence.’
I guess that’s the thing: you can be smarter. You can be more prepared. You can be better overall. But sometimes fate just fucks you”

“she saw me. she stayed. I hadn’t realized until she did how much I needed someone to learn me and stay”

“He never understands how complicated girls are.
I can use that.
It’s flitting on the edges of my mind like a bug spinning in the smoke above a campfire, furiously trying to get down to the light even though it’ll burn alive”

“I am some sort of generational curse.
But here’s the thing: curses can be broken”

“you can be the curse and be cursed yourself”

“‘what did he do to you?’
‘what do you think?’ I snarl.
And she looks at me the way girls sometimes look at each other. That realization. Sometimes it’s mixed with understanding, if it’s happened to them, too. Or mixed with pity, if it hasn’t.
For a moment, she and I understand each other perfectly.”

“I react like i always do: a little too fast, a little too physically, thinking as i go instead of thinking it through”
oh, she’s me

“i know how this feels… lost and discombobulated and scared as layers of a person i loved were peeled back to reveal something i didn’t know to look for”

“Isolation makes you spin stories. Some of them closer to the truth than you’d like”

“it’s them or me. and finally i know enough to know i can choose me”

“sometimes lying is the only way through to survival”

“What’s the use in listening to a man like him, who talks one way and lives another? At least I don’t lie to myself about who I am like he does”