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“There's this place in her, somewhere nobody can touch, not me or Reese or anyone. It's just hers, and I don't even know what it is, really, just that it's there, and that she takes it with her when she goes.”

Sadness Sapphic Horror

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“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.”

Horror Lies Ya Wilder Girls Byatt

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“See how a body will change, to give you the best chance it can.”

Change Evolution Biology Wilder Girls Rory Power

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“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?”

Loneliness Conflict Ya Isolation Starvation Wilder Girls

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“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.”

Ya Sapphic Horror Wilder Girls

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“A sparking. I know this feeling. Just before a flare-up, there’s a moment. Hard to describe, hard to pin down, but for me it almost makes it worth it. The pain and the loss, all of it a fair price for this. This strength, this power, this eagerness to bare my teeth.”

Horror Ya Wilder Girls

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“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.”

Ya Sapphic Horror Wilder Girls

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“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.”

Horror Ya Sapphic Horror

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“Marking Raxter as hers, and sometimes I think that if she asked, I’d let her to the same to me.”

Horror Gay Ya Queer Lesbian Lgbtqia Queer Ya Body Horror Lord Of The Flies

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“It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else.”

Love Relationships Psychology

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“I've wondered. Of course I have. And I love Byatt more than anything, more than myself, more than the life I had before Raxter. But I know the warmth in my heart when I look at her. How it burns smooth and even, without a spark.”

Love Quotes Friendship And Love

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“I’m still bitter,” I say. “Nobody ever gave me anything for my first.” Byatt laughs, her hands moving quick to open the soup can, and she gives me the lid. “There. My gift to you.”

Humor Friendship Wilder Girls Rory Power

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