“You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Things I didn't expect to do my senior year: Become a drug dealer. Become my mother. Find and lose the love of… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“This is ridiculous," I said, trying to laugh it off. "I never cry at movies." "Because you've never been in love," he… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you’ll lose it someday.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try." "Try' being the operative word,"… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you're gorgeous, you're fearless and unpredictable,… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“That’s how you know someone loves you. When they want you to be happy even in the part of your life they’ll… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“I'm not over you. I dream about you every night. I watch that fucking video over and over just to hear your… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“I love you, I thought. If I was the only person truly alive that night, it was because of you. You made… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“He embraced me, and said into my ear, 'I'm going to fuck the shit out of you.' I lost my breath. It… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Maybe I fell in love with the idea of love, but I’m a teenage girl. This morning I fell in love with… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“What is this feeling? I wondered. What is this hunger that grows worse the more I feed it? They’d come up with… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“The brain is an incredible multitasker. At the same time that it’s piercing itself with superheated needles of anguish, it’s ruthlessly making… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“For a long time before I met you, I felt my life was this kind of test. I was in deep, cold… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed?… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don't guard ourselves like we do with… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Are you in love with him?” I rolled my head on the plank to look at Wesley. “I don’t think I know… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“When he drove away I took a picture of the receding tail lights, and after his car was gone I stood there… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“If I was gay, I wouldn't need an asterisk beside my name. I could stop worrying if the girl I like will… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“For a long time before I met you, I felt my life was this kind of test. I was in deep, cold water, swimming… — Leah Raeder Copy Share
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul and all that jazz.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share
“Here’s a history of the world: Girl meets boy. Girl fucks boy. Girl gets scared and skips out on boy. Boy builds civilization to… — Leah Raeder Copy Share
“That is all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share
“Don’t come here to fuck with my head and play games. You don’t test someone’s love by leaving them.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share
“It wasn't about flirting with death, like Mom. It was about wanting to live all the way to the seams of life.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share
“But this is who you are. You’re a liar, and a thief, and a junkie. I don’t hate you, Mom. I’m disappointed in you.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share
“That's another thing about lies: if you convince yourself they're true, they become true. A lie is a discrepancy of belief, not fact.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share
“What is this feeling? I wondered. What is this hunger that grows worse the more I feed it? They’d come up with a name… — Leah Raeder Copy Share
“I can't hold on to you. You're like a shooting star. Just a trail of fire in my hands.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share
“I'm also thinking the night I met you was like someone handed me a winning lottery ticket and said, 'You can only have it… — Leah Raeder Copy Share
“Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed villages, kidnapped princesses.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share
