Illusion of control Quote by Ripley Patton

“Sometimes there is a darkness you can hear, a swallowing of your senses that blots out everything going on in the world around you,…

— Ripley Patton

“Marcus looked down. “Ah, man! This was my favorite shirt. Who tore it?” he asked, trying to pull the ragged edges together.”

— Ripley Patton

“Don’t think about that. Don’t think about him.”

— Ripley Patton

“But can’t we do that with our clothes on?” “We could,” he said, giving me that cocky grin of his. “But where’s the fun…

— Ripley Patton

“You know,” he said, “P.S.S. Piss Camp.” “Yeah, I get it,” I said, “It’s just not funny.”

— Ripley Patton

“I know babe" he said, wrapping me in his arms. I could hear the loudly thu-bump of his heart as he picked me up…

— Ripley Patton

“Instead, I just sat there crying, hoping he’d come find me, which made me cry even harder.”

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“Gone was the insignificant, defective girl. I was some kind of f**king comic book vigilante & it felt amazing! ”

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“I deserved some pain.”

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“My dad was nothing but a bingo call.”

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“Let’s just say, there’s not much of a moon out tonight,” Nose continued anyway, “but if Yale joined us, there would be.”

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“After all, eyes are the windows to the soul. But Renzo had a bit too much soul in his eye.”

— Ripley Patton