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The Girls I've Been QUOTES

The Girls I've Been QUOTES

1 " you dont grow up with my mother and not know all about power over men. how to get it. how to use it. how to keep it. and now she hasnt even lost it, shes given it to him on a silver plater because of love, and im reeling, because its such a con. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

2 " Ashley," he barks suddenly.
"yes?" I learned he early he doesn't like being asked what. he thinks young ladies should be positive. yes is so much more affirmative and positive. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

3 " but I don't think there is a my side. i think there's only a her side. that's what being Haley taught me... and I have the scars to prove it. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

4 " this is what i know:

if they cant make you soft and scared, they'll just make you scared "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

5 " you cant con a con artist. isn't that what they always say? once I thought it was true. absorbed it a with all of her other teachings and my baby food. but I've proved the adage wrong, haven't I? I learned from the best. no- not her.
him. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

6 " I fell like a star and she was the end of the world. A cataclysmic crash of two people. Never to be the same. Never getting back up. Not unless we were doing it together. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

7 " What didn't kill me didn't make me stronger; what didn't kill me made me into a victim.
But I made me stronger. I made me into a survivor. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

8 " There is no normal. There is just a bunch of people pretending there is. There's just different levels of pain. Different stages of safe. The biggest con of all is that there's a normal. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

9 " I’d tear the whole world apart for you"

"And I'd burn it down for you "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

10 " This we share. Scars and knowledge and broken saftey that was never reallty there in the first place, because we were born to bad apples. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

11 " It was the perfect meet-cute, except when you’re a girl who likes other girls, there’s this little additional dance, because what if she doesn’t? So you’re not looking for red flags like a girl does with a guy—you’re looking for rainbow ones. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

12 " I was raised for a kind of slaughter. But I grew into a huntress instead. One who always hits her target. No matter what. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

13 " I hate the whole " what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" saying. It's bullshit. Sometimeswhat kills you is worse. Sometimes what kills you is preferable. Sometimes what doesn't kill you messes you up so bad it's always a fight to make it through what you left with.
What didn't kill me didn't make me stronger; what didn't made me a victim.
But I made me stronger. I made me into a survivior. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

14 " We're all gonna die because I waited for the bacon donuts "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

15 " Practically everyone thinks they're smarter than a teenage girl. It's what makes being one so powerful, if you know how to use that giant mistake of an assumption. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

16 " She's staring at me with a bomb and her brilliance between us, and I'm twisting a paper towel fuse with the kind of trust I didn't think I could give another person. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

17 " Came into the world with a lie on my lips "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

18 " I am so sick of crying over them...those girls and what happened to each of them. My mother and what she dragged me into... and how I clawed myself out. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

19 " I'd never felt more instantly connected to a person in my life. I didn't love her immediately. I was already too wary for that. But I recognized something in her, something I wanted to be but couldn't even articulate yet: free. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been

20 " There is no normal,” Amelia says. “There’s just a bunch of people pretending there is. There’s just different levels of pain. Different stages of safe. The biggest con of all is that there’s a normal. What I want for you is happiness and safety. That’s what I want for myself, too. "

― Tess Sharpe , The Girls I've Been