Gabby Rivera Quotes

#1. (...)my love for you is deeper than anything that happened between us. My love for you is the sun, the sky, and the moon. It's the air I breathe. It lives in everything I do. It's better than good. It's everlasting.

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#2. You will meet people who'll change the course of your life forever. Learn when to hold onto yourself and when to fly directly into the storm.

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#3. Reading would make me brilliant, but writing would make me infinite.

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#4. You gonna get a cut?" Blue Lips asked. "I'm afraid of looking like a dyke," I said. "Are you a dyke?" "I think so." "Then no matter what you do with your hair, you're gonna look like a dyke," Blue Lips said. They

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#5. I'm going to love you without being in love with you.

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#6. All of the moments where I was made to feel like an outsider in a group that was supposed to have room for me added up and left me feeling so much shame.

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#7. (...)my mom was the gravitational pull that kept me stuck to this Earth

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#8. It made me wonder about all the ways that we are able to love each other and how movies and TV make it seem like you have to discard people once they break your heart or once the love disappears.

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#9. The world is filled with enough room to flee at any moment. In

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#10. Scrape knees for love. Tell hard truths for love. And definitely run heart-first into the unknown for love. Try to have a plan. But if you don't, make sure you have people. You coming, mi gente?

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#11. You can't just go punching a bunch of kids in the face. Remember, you were once that kid looking for someone, anyone to connect to. That's still you.

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#12. I understood 'microaggressions' to mean 'little bullshit acts of racism.

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#13. If it's a phase, so what? If it's your whole life, who cares? You're destined to evolve and understand yourself in ways you never imagined before. And you've got our blood running through your beautiful veins, so no matter what, you've been blessed with the spirit of women who know how to love.

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#14. Who needs a girlfriend when you have abandonment issues and super-powers?

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#15. Seriously, some of my best friends are libraries.

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#16. I wanted her to change my world."
"Mi amor, only you can change your world.

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#17. We lived loud and hard against a neighborhood built to contain us. We moved like the earth pushing its way through cement sidewalks.

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#18. How was I supposed to survive here? These Portlanders were an entirely different breed of white people.

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#19. Get a little hysterical, Juliet. I mean that's why vibrators were invented, right?

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#20. Every day that we exist on this planet the forces of white men in power are aimed at policing women's bodies and subjugating our identities to make us feel lesser than, to control us through physical and economic annihilation.

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#21. When boys talked, it sounded like feral dogs barking. They fiended for attention, were always aggressive, and made me wish I could put them down.

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