40 Quotes by Riley Redgate

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’?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Life is better when it’s scripted.

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.