40 Quotes by Riley Redgate

It was impossible to feel alone in a room full of favorite books. I had the sense that they knew me personally, that they’d read me cover to cover as I’d read them.

I love every detail, because it means I’m close enough to know these tiny secrets. I.

I wish I could tell who was gentle all the way down, and who turned to sharp edges the deeper you got.

Though I guess if you love someone, the thought of losing their approval is probably twice as terrifying.

You know what they say. Three things last forever: faith, hope and spite. And the greatest of these is spite.

There was something alienating about being on scholarship, a tense mixture of gratefulness and otherness. You’re talented, the money said, and we want you here. Still, it had the twang of You were, are, and always will be different.

The only real thing was her phone, alive and moving in her pocket, where her friends’ reassurances built up. Every so often she looked down at it, the corner of a glowing screen peeking out of her pocket, and felt herself slipping inside that digital place they had together, where the world was made out of words and everything was safe.

It’s sort of hilarious, though, how so many... kids like to think they’re social outcasts, talking with people who are obviously their friends about ‘never fitting in’. They have no idea. If they did, they wouldn’t glamorize it. The reality of isolation is glamorous and unexciting” -Kat.

Panic is pouring around me, liquid in a glass box, drowning me inch by inch. What.