40 Quotes by Riley Redgate

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    I meant to ask Erik to say something to Victoria, to follow what had happened at the dance, but I couldn’t settle on the right words. An apology for fleeing, sure, but then what? ‘I only think of you as a friend’? ‘I think we should see other people’? ‘It’s not you, it’s the fact that I’m secretly a girl who sacrificed a foot and a half of perfectly good hair to the dark gods of a capella’?

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    Hearts fit together like hands. Not by necessity. By choice.

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    It was a weird day if figuring out you were bisexual made up the least of your mental turmoil.

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    It’s too simple to hate the people who have doorways where you have walls.

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    I promise you, two dozen words were not the difference between mediocrity and excellence. Make a habit of burning something to ash before expecting a rebirth.

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    Interrogate your instincts. Insecurity isn’t shameful. Attraction isn’t an embarrassment. Interpersonal affection isn’t a side note to be glossed over. Whatever the nature of the material that forms between two people, it’s the backbone of literature.

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    Or maybe love is never healthy, and we should guard our hearts in hospitals for preemptive healing.

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    No, don’t argue. Just do it. Man, do I have to force you into everything? I swear, when you get married, I’m gonna be standing at the altar pinching you between every vow.

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