44 Quotes by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

I didn't consider how dangerous it was that our existence was founded on her well-cloaked fear. That there wasn't anything to lose until she was afraid of losing me.

It's hard to separate anything from Trixie. Her friendship altered me, made me change shape in more ways than I ever knew was possible. Her voice is in my head. She's under my skin, a tattoo nobody else can see.

I know that it's better this way, being the one in control. The one in control calls the shots, and the one in control sets the pace. Most important of all, the one in control doesn't get hurt.

It was worth it," Faye says after school while she walks me to my car. "It's not fair that you take all the shit for this while the guys get to walk around like nothing happened. They're just as much to blame.""I'm the one who started it," I say, kicking a beer cap across the parking lot with my shoe. "If I hadn't started it, nothing would have happened."Don't let them off the hook so easily," Faye snaps. "They were coming to you. It takes two to have sex. So don't defend them.

Virginity is supposed to be something a girl gives up only when she is ready and feels comfortable, something a girl discusses at length with her friends and flip-flops over a million times in her mind before actually doing it. A guy is expected to be born ready.But what I realized after Tommy is that they're not. They're just as scared as their girlfriends, maybe even more so because the onus is on them to be gentle, make it last, make it memorable. And most of them haven't a clue.

I’m so used to planning for guys, dressing and undressing for them and trying to morph myself into their dream girl. I’m so used to it that I don’t really know where that girl ends and the real me begins. I suppose what it comes down to is confidence. I’m confident in that girl, the one who emerges from my walk-in wearing lingerie when I’m done getting ready. But at Faye’s house, I’m not going to be that girl. I’m going to be me. Whoever that is anymore.

She's her full height, confidence sweeping behind her like the train of a wedding dress.

Everyone says boys will be boys, but girls? Girls will be monsters.

We're girls, Elle. We make one wrong move, and we're villains. There's no in between. We never had it both ways.