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1 " You go away when you're high. You get closer when you're drunk. When you're both? I dunno, just kinda feels like you're empty. "
― Auryn Hadley , Flawed (Gamer Girls, #1)
2 " Nothing in your past could make me think less of you. I got your back, Dez." "Promise?" "Forever and almost always. "
3 " I'll keep trying, though, if you will.’ ‘What if,’ she hiccupped a sob, ‘I freak out?’ ‘Then we start over. But we can't go forward until we take a step. "
4 " That was why he and Dez were different. They knew the rules were a lie. He was scared to be alone; she was scared to be with people. He felt like he'd fade away if he wasn't touched; she felt like she'd be smothered out of existence if she was. He'd wanted so badly to die and make all the pain end; she still did. Everyone knew pain, but some lived closer to it than others. "
5 " Screw all the rules. Screw everything that makes sense. Dez, I want to be flawed with you. "
6 " Doesn't count," Mark told them. "Either of you. Whether you're pansexual like Chance, demisexual like Dez, hetero, homo, bisexual." He shook his head. "It's not a flaw. Sorry, guys. "
7 " Everyone knows pain. We are not meant to carry it forever. We were never meant to hold it so closely, so be certain in the belief that what pain belongs to now will belong soon to then. That when someone asks you, "how was your day," realize that for some of us – it's the only way we know how to say, "Be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm, slowly now – let go. "
8 " That's my girl." He tossed her a brilliant smile, the same one she'd first seen on the Silk announcement so long ago. "But it means I'm going to spend a bit of time with him alone." The smile vanished. "I'm going to kick his fucking ass if he touches you. "