Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are
La vida no viene a buscarte, Memphis. Tienes que ir tú a por ella. Los dos tenemos que ir a por ella. Porque nadie va a servírnosla en bandeja.
I’ve been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on an island, Mary Lou said to Adina one afternoon as they rested on their elbows taking bites from the same papaya. Lord of the Flies. What...
I’m coming with you, Kartik insists. You’ll get yourself killed, I argue. Then it’s a good day to die, he says,
It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.
It was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling.
I've the run of the place, and so i spend some time exploring, climbing steep stairs into thin turrets whose windows give me a bird's-eye view of the land surrounding Spence. I flit past locked doors...
I like the way Georgia looks, so different from Texas. All those tall pine trees and that rich, red dirt, like the ground bled and scabbed over, like it’s got a history you can read in the very clay.
I have seen what a handful of girls can do. They can hold back an army if necessary, so please don't tell me it isn't possible.
I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.
I don't know how to accomplish such a look. I find myself with a new fear: that I shall never, ever be this lovely.
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.
Hold up. How do you have sex with somebody? Adina scoffed. Is she all, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, I didn’t see your penis there’?
He loved her very much. She inspired his work. He used to say, 'There is no meaning but what we assign to life, and she is my meaning.
He frowns. A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?
Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way?Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit?Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.
For half a second, I consider staying. Maybe I could find that bliss state again. Maybe I could stay here, follow all the rules, be safe always. But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one...
For all who believe that peace is not an ideal or pipe dream but anecessity. ~Libba BrayThey believe, and believing changes everything. ~Gemma, The sweet far thing, Libba BrayBu the past cannot be cha...
Fashionable debutantes in pastel chiffon party dresses wilt into leather club chairs like frosted petit fours melting under the July sun.
Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. A pro, I see. What else is there to do in Ohio?