Jillian Lauren

“And even if it wasn't Madison, it had been hundreds of others and probably hundreds more. That's what happens to your eyes…

— Jillian Lauren

Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.

— Jillian Lauren

“Regret perches like an umbrella over all of my days.”

— Jillian Lauren

“The hitting was easy compared to the words. The hitting happened only infrequently but the words happened every day. I knew he…

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“Before that experience, I had often felt the kind of alone that comes from the suspicion that you are not only genetically…

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“The air hangs thick with awkward static, like it usually does around the endless parade of therapists, social workers, and grief counselors.…

— Jillian Lauren

I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us…

— Jillian Lauren

“I'm too proud to admit that I was forgotten, even to the guy who did the forgetting.”

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“You have to be careful how you fake it, though, because things like that can stick and before you know it you…

— Jillian Lauren

“I was sure that if I could just scale this fortress I would reach a height with a sunny blue sky and…

— Jillian Lauren

Fall and I'll catch you. And that was all I'd ever wanted, someone to catch me.

— Jillian Lauren

“Dancing was another one of those choice I made that I didn't know until way later what it really meant.”

— Jillian Lauren

“Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the…

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“Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each…

— Jillian Lauren

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…

— Jillian Lauren

“I love rooftops. I love a view from anywhere. Any vantage point from which you can see further than the immediate ground…

— Jillian Lauren

I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face…

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“I pretend I'm fighting to live in the present but really I'm having an affair with the past every secret moment.”

— Jillian Lauren

“Some days seem like the end of your life but then they aren't and you still have to figure out how to…

— Jillian Lauren

“Power tasted like an oyster, like I'd swallowed the sea, all it's memories and calm and rot and brutality.”

— Jillian Lauren

“How can there be so much bullshit in just a little 'Hello, how are you?' that it makes me want to stick…

— Jillian Lauren

“She was like a real strawberry in a roomful of strawberry Pop-Tarts.”

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“We're looking for the story that will save our lives.”

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“We all like to believe that we'd be brave. We'd be the hero in the movie, the one who sacrifices himself to…

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