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Jessie Burton

Medusa

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  • Fernanda Orozcohas quotedlast year
    ‘But, Stheno, why would he ever like me?’

    ‘You’re worth dying for, Medusa. You’re wonderful. You’re the greatest joy in my life.’
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    want a man to treat you as if his happiness had found a home.’

    ‘I’m not that special!’

    ‘Never let me hear you say that again. Everyone deserves to be loved. People have never been nice enough to you, Med. Ever. They’ve been jealous and greedy, and then cruel and judgemental, and every time, you’ve believed what they had to say about you. So I don’t want you to have your heart broken over the first bidder.’
  • Fernanda Orozcohas quotedlast year
    Just because one man is being nice now, doesn’t mean he always will be.’
  • Fernanda Orozcohas quotedlast year
    ‘Medusa, if there ever were someone, a boy, for example—’


    Why would there ever be a boy?’

    ‘If there ever were, you must never deny who you are, or pretend to be the woman you think he would want you to be. You’ll be walking on a lonely road that leads to nowhere.’
  • Fernanda Orozcohas quotedlast year
    I’d told Perseus that I was hiding, but maybe I wasn’t at all. Maybe I had found my space to simply be.

    Maybe I hadn’t realised it, but I’d found a kind of peace.
  • Fernanda Orozcohas quotedlast year
    But you can’t start a fresh chapter until you’ve ended the old one
  • Fernanda Orozcohas quotedlast year
    What you remember and how you remember: it makes you who you are
  • Fernanda Orozcohas quotedlast year
    You see, remembering’s a blessing and a curse. You can’t erase your bad memories, but a life without regrets is a life unlived
  • Fernanda Orozcohas quotedlast year
    When beauty’s assigned you as a girl, it somehow becomes the essence of your being. It takes over everything else you might be. When you’re a boy, it never dominates who you can be.’
  • Fernanda Orozcohas quotedlast year
    My whole life, no one had ever stopped to
    listen,
    to ask me a single question. They’d just looked at me, and thought they’d found their answer
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