Top 70 Tess Sharpe Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “But some marks, they don’t fade. No matter what.”

— Tess Sharpe

2. “I’ll choose you. No matter how hard it is. No matter what people say. Every time, I’ll choose you. It’s up to you to choose me back.”

— Tess Sharpe

3. “You can make vows of loyalty to each other like medieval knights next week. I’ll weave some flower crowns and wear a nice dress for the occasion.”

— Tess Sharpe

4. “I curl my fingers around the ring so tightly, I’m surprised the word stamped into the silver doesn’t carve its way into me the way she did.”

— Tess Sharpe

5. “It was the perfect meet-cute, except when you’re a girl who likes other girls, there’s this little additional dance, because what if she doesn’t? So you’re not looking for red flags like a girl does with a guy – you’re looking for rainbow ones.”

— Tess Sharpe

6. “Like there aren’t years of denial and heaps of lies and boys who touched our bodies but never had a chance at our hearts.”

— Tess Sharpe

7. “I fell like a star and she was the end of the world. A cataclysmic crash of two people. Never to be the same. Never getting back up. Not unless we were doing it together.”

— Tess Sharpe

8. “Of the strength in every woman.”

— Tess Sharpe

9. “When you’re kept by a secret, the first time you hear it spoken out loud is mesmerizing.”

— Tess Sharpe

10. “I am so sick of crying over them... those girls and what happened to each of them. My mother and what she dragged me into... and how I clawed myself out.”

— Tess Sharpe

11. “Broken girls, both of us, growing up into women with cracks plastered rough over where smooth should be.”

— Tess Sharpe

12. “The problem with probably is that it’s probably.”

— Tess Sharpe

13. “It still makes me vaguely sad, in that faded way, like a scar you press too hard on and the damaged tissue remembers the wound fresh, but just for a second, and then it’s gone.”

— Tess Sharpe

14. “I was raised for a kind of slaughter. But I grew into a huntress instead. One who always hits her target. No matter what.”

— Tess Sharpe

15. “Her fingers bite into my arm, and I squeeze her wrist tight where I’m holding on to her, because this is what we’re good at: hurting each other.”

— Tess Sharpe

16. “I am built to run. Not away, but forward. And running forward means sometimes leaving things–people–behind.”

— Tess Sharpe

17. “I realized a long time ago that in order to create real change for animals–from domestic pets to wildlife to farm animals–you need to have a lot of money, or a lot of power. Laws that could–and should–protect animals more aren’t being championed the way they should be. All it takes is one person, determined to rise, to get enough power to give a voice to the voiceless.”

— Tess Sharpe

18. “We’re both girls whose bones got forged from secrets instead of steel. No wonder we snapped together like magnets.”

— Tess Sharpe

19. “She’s drawn to bad men because deep down, she wants to love them. She needs them to love her. I don’t want to love them, and I’ve never needed to be loved by them. I learned very early, the best thing you can expect from them is pain. And the best thing you can do with a bad man is destroy them.”

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20. “She thinks it’s my fault. It makes me feel like something hot and heavy’s pressing into my head, my neck buckling under the weight of it.”

— Tess Sharpe

21. “The most terrifying thing in the world is a girl with power. That’s why they watch us burn.”

— Tess Sharpe

22. “You touch my sister and you will not make it out of this room alive.”

— Tess Sharpe

23. “I’m constantly feeling from the shift. Nothing’s steady. There’s no solid ground. I learn to dance on a tilting one instead.”

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24. “She should know how good I am at pretending. It’s all we do. I pretend that I don’t hurt, that I want Cody, that I don’t want her, that I’m not taking too many pills, that my virginity had been important. It hadn’t been. It only means something when it’s with the right person. And I couldn’t have her.”

— Tess Sharpe

25. “But this is the thing about struggling out of that hole you’ve put yourself in: the higher you climb, the farther you have to fall.”

— Tess Sharpe

26. “There is no normal,” Amelia says. “There’s just a bunch of people pretending there is. There’s just different levels of pain. Different stages of safe. The biggest con of all is that there’s a normal. What I want for you is happiness and safety. That’s what I want for myself, too.”

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27. “We curve around her like parentheses; Iris is some precious phrase between us that needs the shelter of our crooked knees and tucked hands under chins, breath skating in the space between that makes up all three of us now, along with our secrets, exposed and not.”

— Tess Sharpe

28. “Some secrets should stay buried. Just like some people.”

— Tess Sharpe

29. “I’m pointing a gun at someone. Today is terrible. I don’t know if Wes is okay. Iris made a bomb and melted a guy’s face with a petticoat. She loves me.”

— Tess Sharpe

30. “Samantha has no needs or wants. She exists to serve someone else’s.”

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31. “My heart has a piece of Wes wrapped around it like a bandage. My skin will hold the memory of him as permanent, because you don’t forget the first person to touch you with love after life’s taught you all touch is fear and pain.”

— Tess Sharpe

32. “She’s staring at me with a bomb and her brilliance between us, and I’m twisting a paper towel fuse with the kind of trust I didn’t think I could give another person.”

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33. “He laughs, and it’s a sound I know. It’s curling in its cruelty and condescension. Designed to snake around me and make me feel even smaller. But I’m past the fear now. It’s not gone, but it’s not useful. I can only do useful right now.”

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34. “If you can’t beat’em, you join’em.”

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35. “There’s this long road ahead. It’s never-ending, because you don’t get over losing someone. Not completely. Not when she was a part of you. Not when loving her broke you as much as it changed you.”

— Tess Sharpe

36. “Some barriers, they’re made to be broken.”

— Tess Sharpe

37. “This we share. Scars and knowledge and broken saftey that was never reallty there in the first place, because we were born to bad apples.”

— Tess Sharpe

38. “Sometimes you’ve got to save people from themselves. Even if they don’t want it or know it.”

— Tess Sharpe

39. “There is no normal. There is just a bunch of people pretending there is. There’s just different levels of pain. Different stages of safe. The biggest con of all is that there’s a normal.”

— Tess Sharpe

40. “I was a star and she was the end of the world.”

— Tess Sharpe

41. “This collection reveals a universal truth: there’s nothing more powerful than a teenage girl who believes in herself.”

— Tess Sharpe

42. “Came into the world with a lie on my lips.”

— Tess Sharpe

43. “Practically everyone thinks they’re smarter than a teenage girl. It’s what makes being one so powerful, if you know how to use that giant mistake of an assumption.”

— Tess Sharpe

44. “I see the steel wrapped in fear that all little girls find on the spike-strewn road to womanhood.”

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45. “It was a mess when I got it open. Barely organized. But I took care of that. Color-coded it. You know, red for politicians, blue for dirty cops, green for drug dealers, et cetera.”

— Tess Sharpe

46. “This is her first novel.”

— Tess Sharpe

47. “I was not groomable. Not because I’m smarter or better. The opposite: because someone had got there first.”

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48. “Yeah, you just let me get beaten in the name of love and molested in the name of the con.”

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49. “You know, you hit enough girls, eventually you’ll find one who hits back.”

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50. “I don’t think you’re violent, Nora. I think that you react a specific way when you have no way out. Some people freeze. You fight. Neither of these reactions are wrong.”

— Tess Sharpe