It is not aloofness, superiority. It’s a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn’t want to gather close her comrades?
Things can get pretty rough out there,” he says. “Can’t they? For you girls? You’re all a bunch of warriors, aren’t you? Lionhearted.
It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can’t help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour.
…like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don’t change.That’s not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.
…there’s a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there’s no end to the ways love can.
She wasn’t just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes.
The more I did it―the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high.It was something. Don’t say it wasn’t.
If it hadn’t been what it was, it would’ve been beautiful.
Love is a kind of killing, Addy,” she says. “Don’t you know that?
People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can’t help wanting. You can’t be afraid.
A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement.
Did you ever look out in that dark and fucked-up world out there and think, how do I let my daughter out into that? And how do i stop her? And the things you can’t stop because you’re … because-