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21 " I’ve spent every day since I met her telling myself the wrong thing. Telling myself over and over that she was cold, when maybe she was burning the whole time. "
― Rory Power , Wilder Girls
22 " It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else. "
23 " And I’ve wanted boys, and I’ve wanted girls, but I’ve never wanted anyone enough to miss them, "
24 " I love her so much more when she's not here. "
― Rory Power , Burn Our Bodies Down
25 " I am supposed to be quiet, I am supposed to be good, but I was born at war and I can only keep from fighting for so long. "
26 " I should have seen it. I should have seen how she loves as hard as I do. Only I think it pins her down where it picks me up. "
27 " I thought something of my old life would still be here. I thought something of us would have survived. "
28 " Because I think I’d been looking for it all my life—a storm in my body to match the one in my head. "
29 " It all feels forgotten, like we’re the first people here in a hundred years. No tire tracks left on the road, no sign this was ever anything but what it is now. We shouldn’t be here. This place isn’t ours anymore. "
30 " Reese says my name once, just once. Stern and strong, and she believes I can do this, so I have to. "
31 " I just hope they do it quick, put the bullet between my eyes. I won’t fight it—I’ve earned it, I deserve it—but please, don’t make me wait. "
32 " Keep a fire burning; a fire is what saves you. "
33 " But you’re stronger than me, Margot. You are. You bore what I never could.” And the thing is, I know she means it like praise. Like pride. But it isn’t to me. Because yes, I bore this. I fixed it, but there’s a voice in my head, one I’ve never really heard before, and it says, I shouldn’t have had to. "
34 " We don’t get to choose what hurts us. "
35 " I couldn't take my eyes off her the whole night, It was like she made sense, finally, in her father's house, with mismatched furniture and the back door thrown open. "
36 " Everything in my life, a gift and a wound at the same time. When will anything just be what it is? "
37 " Even when there’s no bread, there’s always shampoo. "
38 " I've wondered. Of course I have. And I love Byatt more than anything, more than myself, more than the life I had before Raxter. But I know the warmth in my heart when I look at her. How it burns smooth and even, without a spark. "
39 " She knew who she was and who I should be, and she fit right into all the places in me I couldn’t fill. Reese was different. "
40 " And I told the whole story over again. Because I liked—I like —to see what I can do. "