Leah Raeder

“You're never saying what you think you're saying.”

— Leah Raeder

“Why did everything beautiful come from pain?”

— Leah Raeder

“Somewhere in the universe, two hearts reached out and connected.”

— Leah Raeder

“How could it ever, ever be enough?”

— Leah Raeder

“We sat in the shadows, full of unspeakable things.”

— Leah Raeder

“I respect people who get nerdy as fuck about something they love”

— Leah Raeder

“A lie is a discrepancy of belief, not fact.”

— Leah Raeder

“So if we’re both so happy, why are we sad?”

— Leah Raeder

“The only way to cure an obsession is to become obsessed with something else.”

— Leah Raeder

“I want all of you,” I said. “Every part.” He whispered back, “It’s yours.”

— Leah Raeder

“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

“I was too young to care about boring adult jobs. I was still testing out how my heart worked.”

— Leah Raeder

“The way we looked at each other was more intimate than a kiss could have been”

— Leah Raeder

“That is all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”

— Leah Raeder

“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

“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

“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

“But every stroke of the brush, every lyric, every word whispered between human beings resulted from the pain of being alone. In…

— Leah Raeder

“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

“His eyes moved over me, but hovered mostly on my face. That was almost worse. Who am I without this? I thought.…

— Leah Raeder

“What the hell am I? I thought. Too old to be a real teenager, too young to drink. Old enough to die…

— Leah Raeder

“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

“I love you, I thought. If I was the only person truly alive that night, it was because of you. You made…

— Leah Raeder

“His hand circled the back of my neck. "I need you tonight." Has there ever been a more effective line in the…

— Leah Raeder

“Are you in love with him?” I rolled my head on the plank to look at Wesley. “I don’t think I know…

— Leah Raeder

“...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

“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed?…

— Leah Raeder

“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

“The brain is an incredible multitasker. At the same time that it’s piercing itself with superheated needles of anguish, it’s ruthlessly making…

— Leah Raeder

“I think that lesson was the most important: that none of us actually grow up. We get bigger, and older, but put…

— Leah Raeder

“I leaned back on my palms, looking at the Milky Way spilling in modest grandeur across the sky. A fountain of stars…

— Leah Raeder

“Will Siobhan go out with me tonight?' And the professor said, very derisively, 'No.' So the boy, thinking himself clever, asked me…

— Leah Raeder

“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

“It could have been anyone,” I said. “All the women who look at you when we go out. Ms. Bisette at school.…

— Leah Raeder

“For a long time before I met you, I felt my life was this kind of test. I was in deep, cold…

— Leah Raeder

“It's always goodbye with the mouth and until we meet again with the heart.”

— Leah Raeder

“If you’re trying to avoid loss, there’s no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It…

— Leah Raeder

“No pretensions of goodness, of trying to do the right thing. We’d both wanted to embrace this fucked-up thing between us.”

— Leah Raeder

“You said you didn't know how to have a grown-up relationship. Well, here's your first lesson, Maise. When it gets hard, you…

— Leah Raeder

“The pony stared at us lugubriously from the dashboard. Jesus. Little fucker had watched the whole thing.”

— Leah Raeder