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“Dreams, stories, art- they were, and are, instruments of divine intervention that molded you into a woman who dwells in possibility: who now feels herself serene with comfort and strength.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“Writing is hard. Writing that is good, writing that is powerful enough to evoke a change or an authentic emotion or even just an idea in another human being is about as mysterious as an alchemical recipe, but there are a few known ingredients. Craft? Yes, absolutely. Devotion? A load - yes! Humility? Not vital, I suppose, but all my favorites include at least a dash. Before those can be added to the cauldron though, you must have a base of Honesty. Honesty is difficult to find in public spaces these days (and getting harder every goddamn day) but if you're quiet, and patient, you can usually find some hidden in your room somewhere. (It helps to turn off the lights, for some reason.) Problem is, Honesty is invariably bound to Vulnerability and the only thing that cuts the bitterness of Vulnerability is Courage. And Courage?
Well. Courage is the hardest thing of all.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
Well. Courage is the hardest thing of all.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“My first crush was a sarcastic know-it-all Immortal named Methos, a character from Highlander. To this day I am convinced he is my perfect soulmate. And the focus of my sexual awakening. Lots of people cite the boiler room scene from My So-Called Life, Jareth in Labyrinth, Colin Firth in Pride & Prejudice, or any/all members of the Fellowship of the Ring. But mine happened when Methos rolled out of bed in nothing but boxers to defend his life with a Roman short sword. Unf.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“People often hold technology responsible for infidelity. (...) But while things like Facebook, texting, and email certain make it easier for people (particularly lazy people!) to blur the boundaries of their relationships, it's still the people involved who are to blame.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“But in fanfiction anything was fair game. If we could turn protagonists into vampires, bounty hunters, or elves, we could sure as heck turn them homosexual, bisexual, asexual or any ot he wonderful, beautiful in-betweens. Characters slid all over the rainbow. And through fanfiction I learned about identities like transgendered, genderfluid, and demisexual.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“A solid relationship is about two people trusting each other. About two people complementing each other. Not just one person putting all their hopes into someone else. Because no one can live up to that.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“I don't date as an active activity anymore because the work of loving myself is enough.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.” —Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“Boys say that we girls gossip too much—maybe we do. Or maybe we gossip just enough. And maybe that’s our secret weapon. So pass it on.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“You remember: countless drives by night, two hours north or south from home to your grandparents’ house and back again, you in the back seat with your head on a pillow staring out the window at the stars, so lost in your imagination, so lost in some powerful adventure of your devising, so caught up in the lives of men and women filling your head with their flesh and blood that you might as well have slipped from this world into another. Inside your head: that was reality. Those were the real people. Those were the real people you wanted to become: sometimes the more dangerous, the better.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“In whatever relationship I get into, I have to keep some parts of myself tucked away.
Another part of it is that meeting new people is often a lesson for them on race and there is just not enough time in my life to continue delivering that lecture.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
Another part of it is that meeting new people is often a lesson for them on race and there is just not enough time in my life to continue delivering that lecture.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“When you can classify something, it helps pin it down into a thing you can handle instead of a nameless dread.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“It’s a cool morning, raining out, and you’re a thirty-eight-year-old woman who can’t remember a thing about her life. A strange amnesia, one you never notice until moments like this, when you’re asked to recall what made you—and all you have is a dark space where memories should be. Your mind is never so quiet as when you reach for the past. You would think a predator is near. You would think a vast part of you is hiding. Praying not to be seen, even by you.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“You survived upon the companionship of your imagination. You survived upon the companionship of Conan of Cimmeria and Arwen Undómiel; you lived in a sea cave with Menolly and her little dragons; you were an apprentice of Polgara of the Belgariad and a friend to Sophie Hatter in her moving castle. You walked through a closet and found Aslan and pulled a sword from a stone, and you brought a legion of rogue princes back to life with a kiss. You had no Chinese heroes in books, but you imagined them there, and your dreams were filled with half-breeds, like you.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
“Accepting reality is important to grow, BUT choosing how you want to live within it is up to you.”
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
― The Secret Loves of Geek Girls