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macaulaytwins · 2 years

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Kelly Quindlen // Takato Yamamoto // Grace D. Li

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thatoneurchin · 4 months

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“You’re not like the rest of these girls.”

“Actually… I’m worse.”

- Yellowjackets, 2x09

#yellowjackets #cannibalism #shame #natalie scatorccio #yj as my favorite quotes #yj #anne sexton #her name in the sky #kelly quindlen #alien blues #vundabar

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spvilers · 1 year

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SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY.

“She lays her hand along my jaw and kisses me like she means it, and I am breathless and weightless and dizzy at the very fact of her. Lips and tongue and teeth, her hair and her skin and her perfume, and more than anything, her very essence, her fire and her flaws and that steely determination to be better, to always be better.”

— Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

#she drives me crazy #kelly quindlen #scottie zajac #irene abraham #scottieirene #sapphic #wlw #book #aesthetic #books #book aesthetic #ya books #sapphic book #wlw books #books & libraries #booklr

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sapphic-book-tournament · 4 months

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So, based on your votes, coming up next is our Sapphic Enemies to Lovers tournament! Tell me which books you would like to see on the bracket!

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poppletonink · 6 months

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Best Quotes From 'She Drives Me Crazy'

"I just wish people could be more creative with their ignorance."

"For the dozenth time this year, I wish I could go home with anyone else. But tonight it's not because I hate her. It's because I can no longer deny that I actually like her."

"The ball is usually so controlled in my hands, but tonight it's like I'm chucking a giant potato through a window tunnel."

"At the end of the day, I'm the only person living my life. Why should I answer to anyone else?"

"Cheerleaders are athletes."

'She shoots me a look that to everyone else probably looks flirtatious, but to me seems to say This is such bullshit and these people are idiots and I might kill you but I haven't decided yet.'

"You will move through your life and fall in love with many different people, and at some point, you will get your heart broken. It's unavailable. The key is not to be afraid of the breaking. People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves."

"If you want them to think that you matter, start acting like they should already know that you matter."

"But from me, you deserve honesty. I haven't wanted to be real with you about how messy and broken and confused I feel. I tried to keep you away by telling myself you were the popular girl who didn't care about me. But you do care about me. You care about a lot of things. You have a big heart and you're funny and headstrong. You're one of the most amazing people I've ever met."

"Because before you can worry about who's in your passenger seat, you have to learn to drive yourself."

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queer-book-character-tournament · 1 year

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Book names + authors under the cut

Scottie Zajac/Irene Abraham- She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

Tara Jones/Darcy Olsson- Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Charlotte Thompson/Sutton Spencer- Those Who Wait by Haley Cass

Moiraine Damodred/Siuan Sanche- Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

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strawberrybound · 8 months

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currently reading 'she drives me crazy' and can't stop thinking of scottie as Ellie

the auburn hair, basketball player, masc looking, some part of me deep down is forming a little attachment with her since the small things remind me of ellie (aka my fav char ever)

#she drives me crazy #kelly quindlen #ellie williams #lesbian #sapphic book #am I too obsessed with Ellie and scottie probs has nothing like her?#probably !#but that's okay #let me be delusional #ellie williams x reader

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bubblymilktee · 3 months

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so when are we getting a live adaptation of she drives me crazy with avantika as irene and sadie sink as scottie

#avantika #avantika vandanapu #she drives me crazy book #sadie sink #mean girls musical #senior year #kelly quindlen #wlw #sapphic ya #i know shes talked abt doing it before #i need this omg

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getwreckedddd · 5 months

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"It's just us, right?"

Hannah walks to her. She touches her cheek and finds her eyes. There is a desperate light hanging on her pupils. A flicker of passion, a flicker of shame.

"It's just us."

Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

#her name in the sky #hannah x baker #hannah eaden #bakerhannah #hannah and baker #baker hadley #kelly quindlen

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lgbtqreads · 3 months

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January 2024 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction Author of LOVE AT 350 Lisa Peers‘s MOTOR CITY BABY, a sapphic romance about a woman’s efforts to save a club she managed—and where she fell in love—with a Detroit indie rock star in the ’90s, until the rock star dropped out of the industry and the woman’s life; a blowout benefit concert forces her to reckon with her past and find happily ever after where she least expects it,…

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#Ashley Molesso #Chess Needham #Domenica Feraud #Just Like My Family #Kelly Quindlen #This Must Be the Place

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henry-fox-biggest-stan · 9 months

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This book is so good wtf

But while the whole earth prepares for spring, Hannah feels a great anxiety in her heart, for something dangerous has grown in her, something she never planted or even wanted to plant.

It’s there. She knows it’s there. If she’s truthful with herself, she’s probably known all along. But now, as the days grow longer and the Garden District grows greener, she can actually see it. It has sprung up at last, and it refuses to be unseen.

She tells herself it’s passing. It’s temporary. It’s intensified only because she’s a senior and all of her emotions are heightened. It’s innocent. It’s typical for a girl her age. It’s no more or no less of a feeling than everyone else has had at 17.

But deep down, deep below the topsoil of her heart, she knows it’s not.

Still, she pushes it down inside of her, buries it as far as it can go, suffocates it in the space between her stomach and her heart. She tells herself that she is stronger, that she can fight it, that she has control. That no one has to know.

I can ignore it, she thinks. I can refuse to look at it. I can stomp on it every time it springs up within me.

So she lies to herself that everything is normal. That she is normal. She carries herself through the end of the school week by refusing to acknowledge it. By refusing to align her heart with the growing sunlight and the nurturing heat and the flowering plants and the tall, proud trees.

Book: Her Name in the Sky

#her name in the sky #kelly quindlen #book recs #lgbt book recs #internalized homophobia #religious guilt #iksw #you guy will like this if you liked iksw #i kissed shara wheeler #denial #Hannah eaden #baker hadley

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eldiariodetiara · 25 days

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I remember feeling like I was both too much and not enough.

Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

#Kelly Quindlen #She Drives Me Crazy #book #books #bookworm #bookshop #bookstore #library #libraries #books and libraries #reading #book quotes #bibliophile #literature #booklover #booklove #esa chica me vuelve loca

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book-loving-dyke · 7 months

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enemies to lovers>>>

i’m really enjoying this book :)

#booklr #books and literature #book recommendations #lgbt books #queer books #enemies to lovers #romance books #lesbian #sapphic books #bookworm #sapphic #she drives me crazy #kelly quindlen

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divno · 11 months

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You will move through life and fall in love with many different people, and at some point, you will get your heart broken. It's unavoidable

The key is to not be afraid of the breaking. People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves.

-She drives me crazy by Kelly Quindlen

#sapphic romance moodboard #invisible string #dark academia #romance #wlw #she drives me crazy #kelly quindlen #jock x cheerleader #fake dating #book quotes #light academia #enemies to lovers

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sapphic-book-tournament · 10 months

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#she drives me crazy #kelly quindlen #shara wheeler #i kissed shara wheeler #casey mcquiston #ya books #cute books #lesbian books #lesbian #sapphic books #sapphic book tournament #sapphic #bisexual #lgbtq #lgbt #gay books

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poppletonink · 7 months

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Review: She Drives Me Crazy

★★★★★ - 5 stars

"You would think, based on the fact that I've played varsity basketball for three years now, that I know how to score a basket. You would be wrong."

Scottie Zajac lost her first basketball game with Tally since her breakup. Then, she got into a minor car accident with the person she hates the most, Irene Abraham - not that this is the first time Irene has trashed her car. To make matters even worse, their mothers do some meddling and decide the two girls are to carpool until Irene's car gets fixed. Carpooling doesn't go particularly well, with the two girls arguing like crazy due to the confinement. However, when Scottie sees an opportunity to make Tally jealous (and maybe just move up the social hierarchy of her school as well) she takes it, in the form of bribes and fake dating Irene Abraham. Yet as Irene and Scottie spend more time together, they begin to realise that maybe their dating wouldn't be as crazy as it seems and discover that they do have real feelings for each other.

Romance books that reference rom-com films are on a whole other level to other romance books, and She Drives Me Crazy is in this league of rom-coms. From 10 Things I Hate About You to Say Anything, rom-coms play different roles in the story (either being mentioned in brief passing or having a large impact on the plot).

One of the most important messages of this book is arguably unusual for a romance book because it's not just a romance book. It's a character-centric book and as a result, focuses on sports and athleticism a lot, which is where this message comes in. Cheerleading is as much of a sport as anything else; Cheerleaders are athletes. As Cheerleading is the second most important sport in the entire book, we see just why this is the case. Cheerleading requires its' athletes to be strong, good planners, organised, and good at learning choreography. Irene Abraham can be assigned to everyone single one of these attributes. Therefore it should not be discounted; it is undoubtedly a sport.

While Scottie and Irene are obviously the main characters and are great ones at that, I think it's the minor characters that really make this book so special. Where would our daring, sporty, enemies-to-lovers be without the Christmas-obsessed, spiritual best friend Honey-Belle. Scottie wouldn't be Scottie if it weren't for her relationship with her sisters, caring and being protective over each other. Dannielle and Kevin were genuinely the cutest side-plot of this entire thing - the nerds who get excited over debates and slowly fall for each other during each crisis that Scottie is undergoing. Also, the parents were the greatest comedic relief of this book - supportive of their girls and their dreams but also utterly embarrassing whenever Scottie and Irene see each other. To summarise, the characters of this book are what make it so great; the characters make you continue reading.

She Drives Me Crazy is sort of the sapphic version of Better Than The Movies. It's got rom-com references, everyone's favourite romance-obsessed ginger main character (I'm pushing a Scottie Zajac is the sporty version of Liz Buxbaum agenda), and it mixes the tropes of fake dating and enemies to lovers. I'd recommend to read during the build-up to Christmas (Christmas isn't necessarily a large part of the story, but it's when it's set and the town they live in is a bit Christmas-obsessed). If you love all that I've described, I'd definitely recommend giving this funny, witty romance a read.

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