“Just that. A pleasant daze. My body was full of sunlight. No blood, just liquid blue sky.” — Leah Raeder Blue sky Copy Share Image
“You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.” — Leah Raeder Love Copy Share Image
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul and all that jazz.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“That is all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“It's always goodbye with the mouth and until we meet again with the heart.” — Leah Raeder Goodbye Copy Share Image
“If you’re trying to avoid loss, there’s no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It… — Leah Raeder Heart beat Copy Share Image
“No pretensions of goodness, of trying to do the right thing. We’d both wanted to embrace this fucked-up thing between us.” — 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 Love Copy Share Image
“I saw his pupils dilating like a pulsing black heart. I saw every tremor of strain and pleasure that went through him.… — Leah Raeder Black heart Copy Share Image
“Remember when you thought I was jumping off to kill myself?” He winced. “It’s like that,” I said. “But no one catches… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried… — Leah Raeder Life 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 Forbidden love Copy Share Image
“I was so sure this was different, the kind of story they made movies and books about, but in the end it… — Leah Raeder Books 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
“Don't put your life on hold for someone, or you'll wake up at 42 with an empty house and a terrifying sense… — Leah Raeder Freedom 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 Life 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 Brain 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 Breathing space 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 Love Copy Share Image
“You're so alive, Maise. You're so here, so present in the moment. You've taught me that happiness is possible now, not in… — Leah Raeder Alive Copy Share Image
“I almost turned around right there. Stupid, yeah, but PTSADS doesn’t care how stupid a trigger is. If you need me to… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“I'm also thinking the night I met you was like someone handed me a winning lottery ticket and said, 'You can only… — Leah Raeder Lottery ticket 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
“It could have been anyone,” I said. “All the women who look at you when we go out. Ms. Bisette at school.… — 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
“I see the lights every night. It seems like the whole world has figured out how to be happy, but no one's… — Leah Raeder Every night Copy Share Image
“You said you didn't know how to have a grown-up relationship. Well, here's your first lesson, Maise. When it gets hard, you… — Leah Raeder Lesson Copy Share Image
“The pony stared at us lugubriously from the dashboard. Jesus. Little fucker had watched the whole thing.” — Leah Raeder Humor Copy Share Image
“I was too young to care about boring adult jobs. I was still testing out how my heart worked.” — Leah Raeder Art work Copy Share Image
“The way we looked at each other was more intimate than a kiss could have been” — Leah Raeder Intimate Copy Share Image
