Things felt more messy than ever. Could someone treat you badly and still love you? Someone could treat you badly and you still love them, so maybe the reverse was true too. But just because you loved someone it didn’t mean you had to give them another chance. Or maybe that’s exactly what it meant.

— Ciara Smyth

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I wanted to tell her how much I liked her, how I felt this tugging feeling in my stomach that drew me close to her, but I couldn’t let the words out of my mouth because it felt like unleashing something I couldn’t control.

— Ciara Smyth

I forgot what it was like to be kissed by someone who might want more than a kiss. I knew then that Ruby was definitely not experimenting. I should have been scared. I should have left the room. I should never have gone upstairs with a girl who made me wobble.

— Ciara Smyth

If you accept that there’s a problem, then you have to do something about it.

— Ciara Smyth

Nothing good starts with I hope you’ll be happy for me. The phrase is loaded with the unsaid ending because you won’t be happy for yourself.

— Ciara Smyth

This is what you get for being a Good Samaritan. You die in a girls’ locker room at the hands of a deranged overachiever.

— Ciara Smyth

She flipped her hair over to the opposite side. My stomach flipped over to its opposite side.

— Ciara Smyth

Look,” I said in my softest voice. “you got your heart pulped. You missed someone and then you wanted to feel like they loved you again. that’s not pathetic. It’s your heart, it’s soft and mushy and it’s supposed to be and I’m sorry he thought it was okay to mess with it but that’s his mistake, not yours.

— Ciara Smyth

Maybe that’s what a relationship means, carrying a part of someone around for the rest of your life.

— Ciara Smyth

Cos I fancy you. I’m hoping that if I go to all this effort you’ll look at me and think, ‘Well, she might be a dumbass, but she tries’. And then, I dunno, maybe you’ll flash me or something.

— Ciara Smyth

Love didn’t just disappear did it? Mine didn’t. It wasn’t some light I could switch on and off. It was something that had grown inside me, its roots tangled around all the organs of my body.

— Ciara Smyth

Relationships change and the past isn’t some static thing you could keep forever like a photograph. No one else seems to understand that. Just because something happened, it doesn’t mean it will mean the same thing to you forever. It changes with you.

— Ciara Smyth

The thought made me feel a gasping, grabbing tightness in my chest. Like someone was holding a pillow over my mouth, only the teeny-tiniest molecules of air getting through, more of a taunt than a lifeline. I squeezed my eyes tight shut and forced that part of my mind to turn black. It wasn’t there. There was no problem.

— Ciara Smyth

The roller coaster here gives off the distinct aura of taking your life into your own hands, but I hear life-threatening circumstances bring people together, so why not?

— Ciara Smyth

I’d never met someone I hated more. Would it have been wrong to burn her house down to get out?

— Ciara Smyth

I decided I wouldn’t call her annoying anymore. I didn’t know what it was like to be Meabh, and I certainly would never get what it was like to be Kavi, but I knew what it was like to feel alone.

— Ciara Smyth

Was it possible to have your cake and then not be sad when your cake leaves you and smashes your heart into a mushy pulp?

— Ciara Smyth

I’m just. A girl. Standing in front. Of another girl, asking her. To please accept. This grand. Gesture. As an apology for being an absolute gobshite.

— Ciara Smyth

I thought about how amazing it was that this moment would exist forever. Perfect and unchanged. A moment where I always be madly in love with Ruby Quinn.

— Ciara Smyth

I dug deep down into my empathy store and found a dried-up old raisin.

— Ciara Smyth

I heard a plea for absolution in those words. I saw it on his face. Tell me I’m not a terrible person.

— Ciara Smyth
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