“For a long time before I met you, I felt my life was this kind of test. I was in deep, cold… — Leah Raeder Better job Copy Share Image
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul and all that jazz.” — Leah Raeder Destiny Copy Share Image
“Here’s a history of the world: Girl meets boy. Girl fucks boy. Girl gets scared and skips out on boy. Boy builds… — Leah Raeder History Copy Share Image
“That is all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.” — Leah Raeder Life 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
“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
“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 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
“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 Long time 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 Shooting star 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
“Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed villages, kidnapped princesses.” — Leah Raeder Desire Copy Share Image
“There's something so terrible about wanting something you've already had. You know exactly what you're missing. Your body knows precisely how to… — Leah Raeder 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
“Grow up. This is real. The world is ugly and nasty and fucked up, and so are we.” — 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 Lesbian 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 Old enough 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
“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
“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
“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
