Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.
Libba Bray, Beauty Queens.
“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”
“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...”
“This was about more than semantics; it represented a dangerous shift in perspective.Rio was not at war, I pointed out; and even if it were, wars have rules.”
“Rules are for people with the luxury of time.”
“Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.”