“ We looked at each other with that resentment you feel when you want something so much it’s causing you pain, so much you start to hate it a little. Leah Raeder
“ Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed villages, kidnapped princesses. Leah Raeder
“ If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try.""Try' being the operative word," he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try. Leah Raeder
“ I touched his hand, carefully. Not too intimate, but not some half-assed there-there pat, either. Would he understand? Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me>om… Leah Raeder
“ I'm not over you. I dream about you every night. I watch that fucking video over and over just to hear your voice. Does that make you happy? Is that proof I cared? Leah Raeder
“ Maybe all you need to pull you back form the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell. Leah Raeder
“ Most of the time romance isn't even about love, anyway. It's about escape. Fantasy. Salvation from the mundane. Save me from boredom, from exhaustion, from my undersexed body, from microwave dinners a… Leah Raeder
“ I was so sure this was different, the kind of story they made movies and books about, but in the end it was just a summer to a summer, a dizzying breath of honeysuckle and whiskey and candle smoke, in… Leah Raeder
“ Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you're gorgeous, you're fearless and unpredictable, you're a firecracker spitting light, entrancing a hun… Leah Raeder
“ Anyone who's happy in a world this fucked-up has some serious psychological issues. You think I'm crazy because I see things as they are. You'd rather put on Disneyland goggles and watch TV and preten… Leah Raeder
“ Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt conne… Leah Raeder
