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1 " Love is hard to find and easy to lose, same as anything small and precious. "
― Kristina Riggle , The Whole Golden World
2 " Love isn’t always fireworks and rainbows. Mature love is quieter, but it’s there. "
3 " You are the innocent in the scenario between you and the teacher. Absolutely. You are not innocent in the lies you told to see him.” “I thought he manipulated me and abused me, therefore I can’t be held responsible.” Dinah retorted, “I thought you were a mature woman and fully in control of all your actions. "
4 " Morgan punched her thigh lightly to remember her own careless mistake: the age of consent. She’d researched it online. It was sixteen in Michigan, and she was seventeen. They should have been in the clear; she never intended this. She didn’t know that there was a special legal category for a teacher and student. Didn’t know it would be “criminal sexual conduct III. "
5 " That’s what no one understood. She was no victim. She was a grown woman trapped in a body too young for anyone to take her seriously. "