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No one controls who we turn into but us.

When your fate is predetermined, there's not much benefit in coddling.

I just want to be with you. Walk next to you, Ivy, wherever you're headed. That's all.

Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.

He is such a child underneath all his alpha male bravado. A selfish child who thinks everything in the whole world is meant for him.

always believed in who I am even during the times I struggled to believe myself.

I want to see you naked. I want to touch you. I want you to touch me. I just...want.

We're all fucked up, Lane, one way or another. It's only a matter of degree.

But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater that my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.

And maybe that's love, too - feeling the other person's hurts like your own.

I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.

I know the days can get long if you don't have a purpose.

Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.

I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.

Are you happy, Ivy?' he asks, surprising me.
In my whole life, I don't think anyone ever asked me that question.

My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.

You're easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.

I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

But recognizing the ridiculousness of an emotion and being able to master it are two very different things, I'm finding.

There are only two choices. Stay here and die. Or get up and see what happens next.

...sometimes you have to hurt people just to prove you're alive.

Strange how the sound of a single word can hurt more than a ruined shoulder, cut deeper than a bloody gash.

He didn't save me, though. He allowed me the freedom to save myself, which is the very best type of rescue.

I don't trust most people. Except for you."
"Why me?"
"Because everyone needs someone to put their faith in.

Your eyes are still sad," she tells me. "But your whole face lights up when you look at him.

Relax," the girl says. She holds out a hand but doesn't touch me. "We're not going to hurt you."
"Yet," the man in the doorway says with a smirk.

Maybe I'll be okay. Maybe I'll make it to the ocean.

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

Is it still manipulation if you know it's happening, but it works anyway?

That's what love is, though, isn't it? You don't stop loving someone just because they disappoint you.

He's an eighteen-year-old boy and this is his wedding night. I don't think he's taking me home to play checkers.

The scars are just something that happened to me. They aren't me. Not anymore.

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.