“ I am not the heroine of this story.And I'm not trying to be cute. It's the truth. I'm diagnosed borderline and seriously fucked-up. I hold grudges. I bottle my hate until it ferments into poison, and… Leah Raeder
“ Then I put the hot barrel beneath my chin.No. Zoeller lurched toward me, eyes wide. No, Laney.I curled my finger around the trigger and he froze. I could see his white sclera. I’d never seen him frigh… Leah Raeder
“ I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed and sung me moonstruck, kissed me quite insane. And before you think that's cheesy,that's Sylvia Plath. Google her, young Padawan. Leah Raeder
“ But every stroke of the brush, every lyric, every word whispered between human beings resulted from the pain of being alone. In our haunted heads, our imperfect bodies. Islands carved from clay and bo… Leah Raeder
“ You can fall in love again with someone you're already in love with. It's like waking from a dream within a dream and finding another layer, the colors more vivid, the light more lucid, the fantasy mo… Leah Raeder
“ Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don't guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to shield our hearts from each other. Wi… Leah Raeder
“ If there's a better definition of love than mutual benevolent insanity, I haven't heard it. Leah Raeder
“ In a typical college romance novel, he'd be a gorgeous but troubled sex god who'd cure all my deep-seated psych issues with a good hard fuck. I'd smell his misogyny and abusive tendencies from miles o… Leah Raeder
“ Girls get under each other's skin. We get too close, too attached, too crazy, and then we can't let go. Our claws sink too deep. When we separate, we tear each other apart. Leah Raeder
“ You know, rust is just oxidation. The same chemical process as fire. Oxygen interacts with steel, electrons drift from one element to the other. So really, rust is a slow fire. Isn't that weird? Water… Leah Raeder
“ If I was gay, I wouldn't need an asterisk beside my name. I could stop worrying if the girl I like will bounce when she finds out I also like dick. I could have a coming-out party without people think… Leah Raeder
“ If two people could make each other smile and laugh and forget all the pain and darkness in the world for a moment, why should we feel ashamed of it? Leah Raeder
“ The brain is an incredible multitasker. At the same time that it’s piercing itself with superheated needles of anguish, it’s ruthlessly making plans, contingencies, plotting out a future, giving zero… Leah Raeder
“ Kintsugi is a pottery technique. When something breaks, like a vase, they glue it back together with melted gold. Instead of making the cracks invisible, they make them beautiful. To celebrate the his… Leah Raeder
“ I couldn’t tear my eyes from the window, wanting to drink in as much of St. Louis as I could, knowing somewhere out there, one of those infinitesimally small lights was him. I wondered if he’d look up… Leah Raeder
“ Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All bullshit. Leah Raeder
