Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.
You’re meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.
When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.
Every girl is a goddess.
I’ll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won’t be.
After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces.
Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don’t be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
She was no longer a slow dreamer watching the flowers grow. She was a warrior now. Warriors need something to fight for though, beside their lives, because otherwise their lives will not be worth it.
He said, You’re so tiny, like a doll, you look like you might break. I wanted him to break me. Part of me did.
Love is a dangerous angel.
What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?
Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.
I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.
I try to see the dark and light in everything. This is my way of comforting myself when I am dealing with those emotions.
The true warrior isn’t immune to fear. She fights in spite of it.
Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.
I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.
My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won’t get shaken and just all shatter and break.
She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.
I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.