“I want all of you,” I said. “Every part.” He whispered back, “It’s yours.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“That's another thing about lies: if you convince yourself they're true, they become true. A lie is a discrepancy of belief, not… — Leah Raeder Faith Copy Share Image
“The only way to cure an obsession is to become obsessed with something else.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“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 Death Copy Share Image
“Okay, I should probably go. I don't want to stop, though. I can't stop with you. Come with me to St. Louis.… — Leah Raeder Happiness Copy Share Image
“Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed villages, kidnapped princesses.” — Leah Raeder Desire Copy Share Image
“This is mine, I thought as he fucked me. This body, this act, this man, all mine.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I hook up with older guys. And then I leave them, before they can leave me. Thanks for the abandonment issues,… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“That was what we'd finally been forced to confront: if our relationship was based on forbiddenness, what would happen when it was… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“And always, in my pocket, in my skin, in the back of my mind, the hollowness where he used to be. The… — Leah Raeder Hollowness Copy Share Image
“But Mom’s shamelessness and weakness of will had led me to become the opposite: stubborn and proud. Too proud to ask for… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“The removal of all boundaries, all distractions, leaving us with nothing but each other - scary. What kind of people would we… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed and sung me moonstruck, kissed me quite insane. And before you think that's cheesy,that's… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“...The thought of how much happiness lay scattered across the universe, unrealized, in fragments, waiting for the right twist of fate to… — Leah Raeder Across the universe 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
“But every stroke of the brush, every lyric, every word whispered between human beings resulted from the pain of being alone. In… — Leah Raeder Alone 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
“What happened felt more like chemistry than a kiss. Pure liquid heat on my lips, dissolving into me, trailing a hot line… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“I leaned back on my palms, looking at the Milky Way spilling in modest grandeur across the sky. A fountain of stars… — Leah Raeder Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Will Siobhan go out with me tonight?' And the professor said, very derisively, 'No.' So the boy, thinking himself clever, asked me… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“I think that lesson was the most important: that none of us actually grow up. We get bigger, and older, but put… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Thanks, Dad, for leaving a huge void in my life that Freud says has to be filled with dick.” — 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 Love Copy Share Image
“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… — Leah Raeder Liar Copy Share Image
“Our gazes struck like flint and steel. And I realized that gunsmoke smell wasn’t ozone. It was us. We burned.” — 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
“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 Image
“Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me > omg > boner.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“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 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 Lies Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows how to be a grown-up. We're all just pretending for each other.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Grow up. This is real. The world is ugly and nasty and fucked up, and so are we.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I hook up with older guys. And then I leave them, before they can leave me.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“We’re the sun and moon, Blythe.” “What does that mean?” “I turn invisible when you’re out.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“People know their feelings much sooner than they consciously accept them.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“Wesley had called it self-destructive. Evan understood. It wasn't about flirting with death, like Mom. It was about wanting to live all… — Leah Raeder Death Copy Share Image
“His eyes moved over me, but hovered mostly on my face. That was almost worse. Who am I without this? I thought.… — Leah Raeder Confidence Copy Share Image
“His hand circled the back of my neck. "I need you tonight." Has there ever been a more effective line in the… — Leah Raeder History Copy Share Image
“What the hell am I? I thought. Too old to be a real teenager, too young to drink. Old enough to die… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
