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101 " you will thinkyour parents areshatterproofuntil one dayyou find outthey aren't.- what it really means to lose your innocence "
― Amanda Lovelace , The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
102 " you may not have left (many) bruises on my skin, but you left giant blackberry bruises all over my soul. - i still wonder who i would have been. "
103 " The pain did not make me a better person. It did not teach me not to take anything for granted. It did not teach me anything except how to be afraid to love anyone. "
104 " i had a big smileon my faceas i burnedthe bridges to all the thingsi could notrepair-does the smoke still choke you? "
105 " you are your own lighthouse. "
― Amanda Lovelace , The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
106 " telling menot all menhavebad intentionsdoesn't doanything toreassureme.after iwalk away from you,nothing will havechanged.i will stillbe scared toleave my houseafter sundown.i will stillfind comfortin keys resting between fingers,i will still questionthe intentoins ofevery man i knowi will stillwonderwhen i amto becomea story meant to warnother people's daughters,& i will stillcry when i turn onthe televisionto findyetanother mangetting awaywithwell--what theyalways seem toget away with.i am notthe one whohas to changethe way i thinkor the way i act.they are. "
107 " I am not the one who has to change the way I think or the way I act. They are. "
108 " Curves and fat and rolls are a colossal ‘fuck you’ to the patriarchy – our accidental rebellion. "
109 " It’s such a shame that you will finally have to learn that there are consequences to treating women like they’re nothing. You may have gotten to walk away, but a piece of me will follow you forever. Now, isn’t that romantic? "
110 " who knew such a young heart could shatter? "
111 " at eleven years old the doctor weighed me & afterwards, my mother told me i was too fat & that i needed to go on a diet immediately. for an entire year, food barely passed through my lips. i did not even allow myself to take a sip of water because i wanted to be so thin that i could blow away with the slightest breeze— disappear. i dropped sixty pounds in a few short months & i had to wear long sleeves to cover up the “cat scratches.” - everybody told me how good i looked, though. "
112 " i hope you can find it in your heart to be proud of the woman i have become in spite of you. - still hoping for sugar instead of salt. "
113 " my self-worth shouldn’t feel like an act of bravery. "
114 " Fuck the idea of staying calm. "
115 " women are libraries about to burst. "
116 " a bookmad girl never dies. "
117 " whenhe left,he packed upall my poetry&took itwith him. "
118 " your happinesscomes beforeanyone else'shappiness.-the real meaning of 'self respect'. "
119 " Somehow, my soul knew your soul before we ever had the chance to meet. "
120 " Women endure because we aren’t given any other choice. "