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Category: Amy Engel

I’m not sure how we got to this place, where a girl’s only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

amy-engel, feminism, gender-roles, life, marriage, misogyny, the-book-of-ivy, truth, women

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else’s story.

amy-engel, books, bookworm, escape, fiction, magic, reading, stories, the-book-of-ivy

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

amy-engel, brave, bravery, choice, courage, decisions, love, string, the-book-of-ivy

I don’t understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.

loss, love, pain, ya, young-adult

Now I understand – how sleep allows you to forget, but your pain wakes with the dawn, worse because for a split second you don’t remember what you’ve suffered.

ivy, ivy-westfall, pain, sleep

I don’t trust most people. Except for you.””Why me?””Because everyone needs someone to put their faith in.

And I understand in a way I never have before that loving someone is always going to feel like flying – the unthinkable drop, the fear of falling, the heart-in-your-throat thrill. It is always going to be impossible until the moment that it’s not and you’re soaring on pure faith, your altitude completely dependant upon something you can’t control.

You can’t outrun what’s inside of you. You can only acknowledge it, work around it, try and turn it into something better. I may not know exactly where I’m headed, but this time I’m choosing my own destiny.

destiny, running

But there’s something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him.

abuse, society, ya-dystopian

I’m not sure how we got to this place, where a girl’s only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

amy-engel, feminism, gender-roles, life, marriage, misogyny, the-book-of-ivy, truth, women

My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.

amy-engel, feminism, gender, gender-roles, girls, life, the-book-of-ivy, value, women

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else’s story.

amy-engel, books, bookworm, escape, fiction, magic, reading, stories, the-book-of-ivy