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1 " Lilith,” he says, and he sounds so boy next door, so apologetic, that I can hardly even believe he's breaking up with me. [...] I told you - I told you - that guys like Copeland Park were the most dangerous. The nice ones, the sweet ones, the ones that promise that everything will be okay with a single look. They're the ones that fuck you over the hardest. "
― C.M. Stunich ,
2 " I've been living in fear. I've been living only in books. Which is fine, but … I don't want to just read about romance anymore, Lili "
3 " books speak the truth our mouths are too afraid to voice, our minds too cluttered to parse out. "
4 " I've been staring at him with a filter over my vision. "
5 " If we're in this, we're all in it together. "
6 " Sometimes gender is irrelevant. Love comes whether you want it to or not, and with love, sexual attraction builds. Somebody you never thought you'd find attractive becomes the sexiest human being alive. "
7 " No, don't be. It's better to live wet and bleeding, wearing your hurt like a badge of pride than it is to live numb and empty, inside a shell separate from the world. "
8 " A happy person, a whole person, keeps all their pieces, holds the complete puzzle of their life in their hands. A broken person tries to give those pieces away because they don't like what they see. They fill in all those missing spots on the broken people around them, and in turn, they take some of those people's pieces. "
9 " Pussies are a lot stronger than balls,” Lilith says, startling both me and Pax. “Why would anyone say he's got balls to reference strength when a swift kick to the nether regions drops a man to his knees? As far as calling a weak person a pussy, well, pussies birth babies. Plus, they can take a pounding and enjoy it. "
10 " We fight and we cry and we fuck and we bleed, but it's when we give our hearts away that we find what we need. "
11 " It's better to live wet and bleeding, wearing your hurt like a badge of pride than it is to live numb and empty, inside a shell separate from the world. "
12 " Grief doesn't have an expiration date; love doesn't have a prerequisite. "