447 Quotes by L.J. Shen

She wore the gray Alexander Wang dress I’d bought for her birthday – it took me forever to find a cheap knock-off that’d make her rich friends laugh at her behind her back.

Alex Winslow was both an addict and an addiction. Pure and wild.

Because when you’re a rock star and make a crap ton of money, everyone wants a piece of the pie. A pie you baked. With ingredients you bought.

Seahorses are Luna’s favorite animal because the male seahorse is the only animal in nature to carry the baby and not the mother. The male seahorse is the one to incubate the offspring. To fall pregnant. To nest.

I am strong, yes. But being strong doesn’t mean never getting hurt. It means having a high pain tolerance. I’m not dumb enough to amp it up.

If you think you’ve found something good without anything bad in it, it just means you haven’t examined it close enough.

Sacrifices were like vices. You made them, gave up something good, in order to get something better.

Love is so much uglier than hate because when you hate, you’re not confused. When you’re in love, you’re dumb.

Though I knew she was right. I was missing a few pieces. A few chips I needed in order to be able to love like a normal person does. That’s why I liked breaking things, and why I especially enjoyed breaking Emilia. She was the purest thing I’d ever met.