14 Quotes by Jillian Lauren

Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.

We all like to believe that we’d be brave. We’d be the hero in the movie, the one who sacrifices himself to save others, the one who does the right thing when the world around him is wrong. In the movie the right choice is clear. And we leave the theater feeling good about ourselves because we can say, Me, I’d do the right thing. No one says, Me, I’d be the coward. Me, I’d rat out my neighbor to save myself. But that’s what people do, mostly.

Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other’s souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.

Fall and I’ll catch you. And that was all I’d ever wanted- someone to catch me.

She was like a real strawberry in a roomful of strawberry Pop-Tarts.