Christine Riccio QUOTES

8 " This is for all the teens/young adults/adults who feel like they’ve been left behind. You’re not behind. You have time to find yourself and love and adventure. It’s all out there, and when you’re ready to push yourself out of your comfort zone and look for it, you’ll find it. "

― Christine Riccio , Again, but Better

10 " Cats are evil and stroking them encourages their evil thoughts to climb up into your brain. Be wary of combining cat-stroking thinking, for the result can be catastrophic. "

― Christine Riccio , Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

12 " I suck in a deep breath as I plop one foot over the line and then exhale, knowing I’m standing on both sides of the world at once. "

― Christine Riccio , Again, but Better

14 " You're bolder than before. "

― Christine Riccio , Again, but Better

16 " The young women in all the YA books I loved were high-school age. By eighteen, the majority of them had saved the world, not to mention: kissed people, traveled, been in a relationship, had sex. At twenty I felt like a pathetic, unaccomplished, uncultured, virgin grandma. It sounds like a joke now, but at the time, around all these people my age casually discussing all of the above, I felt so small. "

― Christine Riccio , Again, but Better

18 " Here is hurting me, Pilot … I can’t choose us because I need to choose me. I’m not ready for this. Here, I’m still in school and I’m still dependent. I can’t break from my shit path. But in 2017, maybe I can do something. I have some money saved, and I’ll break up with Melvin and start over or something. I can figure something out there. "

― Christine Riccio , Again, but Better

20 " I so badly wanted to read a coming of age story about someone who was 20. Someone who was still finding themselves and struggling with becoming an adult even after they hit the double decade mark. "

― Christine Riccio , Again, but Better