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1 " My whole day has been a unicorn ride through a field of rainbows "
― Natalie D. Richards , Gone Too Far
2 " Malum Non Vide: See No Evil "
3 " It’s like bracing myself for a fall one second too late. I can’t save myself now. I’ve walked into my killer’s lair. "
― Natalie D. Richards , One Was Lost
4 " My phone buzzes and I fish it from my pocket, expecting Tacey or maybe my parents checking in to make sure I’m okay. But it’s an unfamiliar number.Do you blame yourself?I read the words once. Twice. I see Stella’s locker door swinging open and I hear a train whistle, but neither are happening. It’s all in my head. I force myself to take a breath and head outside. This text is a wrong number. It’s not for me, and it’s definitely not about Stella.And then another message.Do you wish you’d done something? What if you still could?I text back quickly.I think you have the wrong number.I don’t have the wrong number, Piper. "
5 " He shrugs. “Love doesn’t make us do stupid shit, Cleo. Fear does that. "
― Natalie D. Richards , Seven Dirty Secrets
6 " We're both tainted water, but Theo's bubbles to the surface like an oil spill. Mine is invisible. Arsenic hiding in plain sight. "
― Natalie D. Richards , We All Fall Down
7 " Can you go to the darkest imaginable places with a person and still walk with them in the light? "
8 " It feels perfect, all of it, and that's how I know it's wrong. "
9 " He doesn't mean to do a lot of things to me, but he does them all the same. "
― Natalie D. Richards , My Secret to Tell
10 " It's too late to pretend I'm the good girl now - good girls don't get called to the police station. "
11 " I love him so much in this second that it physically hurts. Because I don't know what to do, but he still believes in me. "
12 " What a minute. "
― Natalie D. Richards , Six Months Later
13 " leave Declan where he belongs. Behind me. "
14 " Seven went in. Six came out. And now it’s been a year. "
15 " I’m not sure how wringing out my bra or dying of hypothermia will build character, but I nod automatically. "
16 " Pain spreads up from my middle, squeezing tight in my chest. I think that's my heart. But hearts lie. "
17 " We all do what we have to do to get by. You couldn’t have known this would happen. "
18 " My smile is the biggest lie I've ever told. "
19 " No rain now, but the river is a swollen artery, pumping mud-brown water and chunks of debris through the forest valley. "
20 " This is nothing like our other rare hugs. It's bruising and broken, and I can't hold him tightly enough. "
