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“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”

“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”