Brooke

“Fake
Is that what you are
if you choose to improve
the basic not perfect you?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Perfect

“When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet over money or kids or meaningless flings. My own parents chose to stay married, which I think is rather funny, since they show about as much affection for each other as pit bulls in a ring. Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Perfect

“It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you'll never be the same.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“Religion seemed to me like one group of people telling another group that their color of red was the best. And that everyone had to believe that, or else.”
― Julia Karr, XVI