32 quotes found
“What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?”
“It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.”
“Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.”
“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”
“Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.”
“I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.”
“God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash.Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would...”
“Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.”
“Agent Jones held Sinjins face in his hands. Im going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.How right you are, strange delusional man, Sinjin said.”
“Because the pure girls get rescued." Mary Lou felt something she didn't let herself feel often. She was well and truly pissed off. "Why do girls have to be all pure and innocent and good? Why don't...”
“It had the word bitches in it, which is perfectly fine to use if you're a rapper or a director making a movie about career women, but not if you're a teen girl talking about her homies.""Good point...”
“New Maxi-Pad Pets. Accessories for your period.Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes andin your pants.”
“What about you and me, Adina? Duff said, sidling up to her by the railing. I know I screwed up. But do you think we could start over?Adina thought about everything that had happened. Part of her wa...”
“Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is mean...”
“Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?”
“You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.”
“What did I do to make Mommy leave?You didnt do anything. This isnt your fault.Then why? shed wailed.I dont know, her daddy had said, and he looked so sad.It isnt fair!No, it isnt, baby. Not by a mi...”
“Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, its so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, Are you on the rag of something? And its like I...”
“The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? U...”
“Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!"Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening t...”
“Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to...”
