19 Quotes by Olivia Gatwood

They will tell you home is safe zone.No, bitch face is safe zone.Bitch face is home.Bitch face is cutting off the ladder,willing to burn in the apartment,if it means he can't get in.

What is more teen girl than not being loved, but wanting it so badly that you accept the smallest crumb and call yourself full?

One more thingwhen they call you a bitch, say thank you. say thank you, very much.

Some things are more a feeling than they are a memory.

Reader, I cannot promise you will be less afraid when you finish this book, but I hope you will feel more able to name what lives inside you.

I once heard the word 'conversation'described as a progression of exchangesbut there is no progress hereso maybe I will instead compare thisto the bullet drop—the idea that if you shoota gun & drop a bullet from the same locationthey will hit the floor at the same time, hundreds of feet apart.("The Lover as a Dream")

Maybe, the only reason we fall in loveis to see what we look like to someone else."("The Lover as a Cult")

You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed.

The truth is: It is a privilege to have your body looked for.