64 Quotes by Nova Ren Suma

Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.

They forgot who she was: Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our love. Someone powerful, but in the end not powerful enough.

Some of us had been running all our lives. We ran because we could and because we could not. We ran for our lives. We still thought they were worth running for.

Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning.

Teenage girls know more than we're given credit for. We sense danger even when everyone's telling us it's fine, he's a perfectly nice man, an upstanding member of our community, have you tasted his sugar-cream pie?

I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn’t mean they were the good ones.

Life. We'd long known it was cruel.

Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.

In reality I was a pencil drawing of a photocopy of a Polaroid of my sister- you could see the resemblance in a certain light if you were seeking it out because I told you first if you were being nice.