“I think that lesson was the most important: that none of us actually grow up. We get bigger, and older, but put… — Leah Raeder Green grass 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
“This is mine, I thought as he fucked me. This body, this act, this man, all mine.” — Leah Raeder Maise 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 looked at each other with that resentment you feel when you want something so much it’s causing you pain, so much… — Leah Raeder Anger 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
“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 Relationship 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 George w Copy Share Image
“I stood in the rain, watching his car go. A string tied to it looped around my heart and pulled tighter and… — Leah Raeder Rain Copy Share Image
“I love you, I thought. If I was the only person truly alive that night, it was because of you. You made… — Leah Raeder Love 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
“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
“He embraced me, and said into my ear, 'I'm going to fuck the shit out of you.' I lost my breath. It… — Leah Raeder Forbidden love Copy Share Image
“It's always goodbye with the mouth and until we meet again with the heart.” — Leah Raeder 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 Bi 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
“I respect people who get nerdy as fuck about something they love” — Leah Raeder Respect 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
“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
“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
“Everything was flame shades of tangerine and pomegranate, ripeness on the brink of decay, and when the wind rippled the leaves they… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
“I can’t be your manic pixie dream girl. I can’t be the girl who teaches you how to open your heart and… — Leah Raeder Dreams 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 Dreams 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
