“We all like to believe that we'd be brave. We'd be the hero in the movie, the one who sacrifices himself to save others, the one who does the right thing when the world around him is wrong. In the… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
“And even if it wasn't Madison, it had been hundreds of others and probably hundreds more. That's what happens to your eyes when you… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
“The hitting was easy compared to the words. The hitting happened only infrequently but the words happened every day. I knew he was wrong,… — jillian lauren Copy Share Image
“Before that experience, I had often felt the kind of alone that comes from the suspicion that you are not only genetically different from… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
“The air hangs thick with awkward static, like it usually does around the endless parade of therapists, social workers, and grief counselors. Does anyone… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
“I'm too proud to admit that I was forgotten, even to the guy who did the forgetting.” — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
“You have to be careful how you fake it, though, because things like that can stick and before you know it you become what… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
“I was sure that if I could just scale this fortress I would reach a height with a sunny blue sky and fresh air.… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
Fall and I'll catch you. And that was all I'd ever wanted, someone to catch me. — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
“Dancing was another one of those choice I made that I didn't know until way later what it really meant.” — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
“Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
“Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls.… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet...I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
![“Before that experience, I had often felt the kind of alone that comes from the suspicion that you are not only genetically different from those around you, but different in your very soul...[then] I was a different kind of alone. I was alone and ashamed of myself...it was no one's fault but mine.” quote by Jillian Lauren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/52d/jillian-lauren-24337_loneliness_before-that-experience-i-had-often-felt_735731.jpg)
