“We don't get to choose what hurts us”
―
Rory Power,
Wilder Girls
“I think I’d been looking for it all my lifea storm in my body to match the one in my head.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“She’s never liked us much, not since she complained that there were no boys on the island, and Reese gave her the blankest look I’ve ever seen and said, “Plenty of girls, though.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“Some days it’s fine. Others it nearly breaks me. The emptiness of the horizon, and the hunger in my body, and how will we ever survive this if we can’t survive each other? “We’re gonna make it. Tell me we’re gonna make it.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“There's no room to feel bad. If I feel that, I have to feel everything else.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“Byatt’s carved her initials over and over. BW. BW. BW. She does that everywhere. On the bunk, on her desk in every class we had, on the trees in the grove by the water. Marking Raxter as hers, and sometimes I think if she asked, I’d let her do the same to me.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“But it’s not love, to give your wounds to someone else.” ― Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down
“It’s like that, with all of us here. Sick, strange, and we don’t know why. Things bursting out of us, bits missing and pieces sloughing off, and then we harden and smooth over.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“Some things don’t belong to other people,” she says, tired and drifting. “Some things are just mine.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“I miss the north side cliff and the waves below, and I miss the way the wind steals your breath like it never belonged to you in the first place.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“See how a body will change, to give you the best chance it can.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“Usually, it was an accident. A lie I never set out to tell. A trick I never meant to play. I’d open my mouth, and something strange would come out, new and not mine. Like there was someone else inside.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands.Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much. To stop writing would kill me. I'd never be able to walk through a bookstore without fingering the spines with longing, wondering at the lengthy editorial process that got these titles on shelves and reminiscing about my own. And I'd spend the rest of life curdling with jealousy every time someone like Emmy Cho gets a book deal, every time I learn that some young up-and-comer is living the life I should be living.Writing has formed the core of my identity since I was a child. After Dad died, after Mom withdrew into herself, and after Rory decided to forge a life without me, writing gave me a reason to stay alive. And as miserable as it makes me, I'll cling to that magic for as long as I live.” ― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
“I’ve spent every day since I met her telling myself the wrong thing. Telling myself over and over that she was cold, when maybe she was burning the whole time.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“Some days it’s fine. Others it nearly breaks me. The emptiness of the horizon, and the hunger in my body, and how will we ever survive this if we can’t survive each other?” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“And I’ve wanted boys, and I’ve wanted girls, but I’ve never wanted anyone enough to miss them,” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“I love her so much more when she's not here.” ― Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down
“the human mind does not run on logic any more than a horse runs on petrol” ― Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
“I think I’d been looking for it all my lifea storm in my body to match the one in my head.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“She’s never liked us much, not since she complained that there were no boys on the island, and Reese gave her the blankest look I’ve ever seen and said, “Plenty of girls, though.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“Some days it’s fine. Others it nearly breaks me. The emptiness of the horizon, and the hunger in my body, and how will we ever survive this if we can’t survive each other? “We’re gonna make it. Tell me we’re gonna make it.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“There's no room to feel bad. If I feel that, I have to feel everything else.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“Byatt’s carved her initials over and over. BW. BW. BW. She does that everywhere. On the bunk, on her desk in every class we had, on the trees in the grove by the water. Marking Raxter as hers, and sometimes I think if she asked, I’d let her do the same to me.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“But it’s not love, to give your wounds to someone else.” ― Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down
“It’s like that, with all of us here. Sick, strange, and we don’t know why. Things bursting out of us, bits missing and pieces sloughing off, and then we harden and smooth over.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“Some things don’t belong to other people,” she says, tired and drifting. “Some things are just mine.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“I miss the north side cliff and the waves below, and I miss the way the wind steals your breath like it never belonged to you in the first place.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“See how a body will change, to give you the best chance it can.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“Usually, it was an accident. A lie I never set out to tell. A trick I never meant to play. I’d open my mouth, and something strange would come out, new and not mine. Like there was someone else inside.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands.Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much. To stop writing would kill me. I'd never be able to walk through a bookstore without fingering the spines with longing, wondering at the lengthy editorial process that got these titles on shelves and reminiscing about my own. And I'd spend the rest of life curdling with jealousy every time someone like Emmy Cho gets a book deal, every time I learn that some young up-and-comer is living the life I should be living.Writing has formed the core of my identity since I was a child. After Dad died, after Mom withdrew into herself, and after Rory decided to forge a life without me, writing gave me a reason to stay alive. And as miserable as it makes me, I'll cling to that magic for as long as I live.” ― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
“I’ve spent every day since I met her telling myself the wrong thing. Telling myself over and over that she was cold, when maybe she was burning the whole time.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“Some days it’s fine. Others it nearly breaks me. The emptiness of the horizon, and the hunger in my body, and how will we ever survive this if we can’t survive each other?” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“And I’ve wanted boys, and I’ve wanted girls, but I’ve never wanted anyone enough to miss them,” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
“I love her so much more when she's not here.” ― Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down
“the human mind does not run on logic any more than a horse runs on petrol” ― Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
