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Leah Raeder, born on April 6, 1982, is an accomplished American author known for her works in young adult literature. Her writing style is highly regarded for its unique narrative techniques and profound emotional expression, which resonate deeply with young readers.

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“The brain is an incredible multitasker. At the same time that it’s piercing itself with superheated needles of anguish, it’s ruthlessly making plans, contingencies, plotting out a future, giving zero fucks whether it’ll ever see it. On the day I die, it’ll be calculating what to have for dinner as it bombards itself with pain signals from my amputated legs or my clocked-out heart.”

Love Heartbreak

Book:Unteachable

Source: Unteachable

“Kintsugi is a pottery technique. When something breaks, like a vase, they glue it back together with melted gold. Instead of making the cracks invisible, they make them beautiful. To celebrate the history of the object. What it's been through. And I was just... Thinking of us like that. My heart full of gold veins, instead of cracks.”

Love Heartbreak Reconciliation

Book:Cam Girl

Source: Cam Girl

“Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don't guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to shield our hearts from each other. With girls, it's total vulnerability from the beginning. Our skin is bare and soft. We love with claws and teeth and the blood is just proof of how much. It's feral. And it's relentless.”

Love Obsession Lgbt Queer Lesbian

Book:Black Iris

Source: Black Iris

“I'm not over you. I dream about you every night. I watch that fucking video over and over just to hear your voice. Does that make you happy? Is that proof I cared?”

Love Relationship

Book:Unteachable

Source: Unteachable

“If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try." "Try' being the operative word," he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try.”

Love Relationship Taboo Forbidden Love

Book:Unteachable

Source: Unteachable

“Most of the time romance isn't even about love, anyway. It's about escape. Fantasy. Salvation from the mundane. Save me from boredom, from exhaustion, from my undersexed body, from microwave dinners and reality TV, from going to bed alone with a vibrator or a cat. Save me from my desperately ordinary life.”

Love Truth Funny Romance Fantasy

Book:Black Iris

Source: Black Iris

“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can't even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else.”

Love Broken Ruined

Book:Unteachable

Source: Unteachable

“Girls get under each other's skin. We get too close, too attached, too crazy, and then we can't let go. Our claws sink too deep. When we separate, we tear each other apart.”

Love Romance Girls

Book:Black Iris

Source: Black Iris

“Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you're gorgeous, you're fearless and unpredictable, you're a firecracker spitting light, entrancing a hundred faces that stare up at you with starry eyes.”

Book:Unteachable

Source: Unteachable

“The whole summer was inside of us.”

Love Summer Black Iris

Book:Black Iris

Source: Black Iris

“You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose everything. If you're trying to avoid loss, there's no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends...That's all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”

Ifs Knows Love Should Trying Heart Two Ends Life Is Loses Loss Space Beats Breaths Breathing Someday More Time No Point Space Between Reservations Heart Beat

Author:Leah Raeder

“You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.”

Book:Love at First Sight: A Hot Bed Sampler

Source: Love at First Sight: A Hot Bed Sampler

“Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself.”

Love Fall Love You Self Love Falling In Love Falling In Love With You

Book:Unteachable

Source: Unteachable

About the Author

Born: April 6, 1982
Known for: Author
Quotes: 26

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