#irene abraham x scottie zajac

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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."

[getwreckedddd]

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

Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

[gaybookstournament]

Round 1, bracket 12

Propaganda under the cut, feel free to add more in reblogs or comments. (Trigger warning for the colour purple, non-con things mentioned)

The Colour Purple – This novel depicts the life of African American women in the 1900s in rural Georgia. Celie and Nettie are sisters who were separated at a young age and are unable to see each other for multiple decades. (TRIGGER WARNING FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT AND NON CONSENTUAL BODY CHANGES) Celie writes in the book about how her “father” sleeps with her and touches her, same with Nettie. Tashi undergoes “surgery” which mutilates her genitalia. Celie is also abused by her father, husband and step-children. The Colour Purple has very heavy topics around WOC struggles in the early 20th century.

She Drives Me Crazy – After losing in her first competition with her ex-girlfriend after they broke up, Scottie gets into a car accident with her enemy, the mean Irene. The girls are forced to carpool together until Irene’s car is fixed, and they come up with a plan to get back at Scottie’s toxic ex, and a way for Scottie to climb the school social ladder.

[randomjreader]

Just finished reading this book, and wow. It has been on my tbr list for ages and it DID NOT DISAPPOINT.

Yeah, it's a little cliche, but I love a good cliche. It wasn't overly cringey; it had just the right amount of cheesy for me to go "aww".

I honestly was scared for a second that I wasn't gonna root for our main character Scottie, but her whole internal crisis about getting over a toxic ex and how it affected the people around her was pretty well written, so I literally cannot be mad because I feel for her uk? I feel for both our main characters. I think their problems were touched on pretty well, and explained why they did some of the things they did.

If ur looking for a relatively cute and wholesome sapphic romance book, with sports lovers, fake dating, enemies to lovers, and a pretty diverse cast of characters, would 100% recommend giving it a read <3

[asternicola]

sapphic books headers.

- like or reblog if you save/use.

[dean-mikaelson]

i needed scottie and irene having movie nights at home to convince their families that they're together. i needed scottie and irene sitting in each other's laps in the living room because there wasn't enough room on the couch when they're watching movies with one's family

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BOOK 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.

[getwreckedddd]

"My sweet girls, let me tell you something. 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."

Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

[getwreckedddd]

"Who cares what anyone else thinks? What do you think?"

"Thora, do you really believe that no one else's opinion matters?

"Absolutely." She shrugs as if it's as easy as two plus two. "At the end of the day, I'm the only one living my life. Why should I answer to anyone else?"

"You obviously don't remember high school very well."

She snorts. "Of course I do. The unspoken social hierarchy sucks. But do you know what I've figured out since then?" She dances her fingers in front of my eyes. "It's all perception, Scots. Making people see what you want them to see. If you want them to think that you matter, start acting like they should already know that you matter.

Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

[getwreckedddd]

"It's like . . . I'm holding on to this shred of her, and even though it's a bad shred, it's still something. The moment I let that shred go, I'll have nothing left."

Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

[getwreckedddd]

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

[getwreckedddd]

"Yes. You'd ask why I like gardening so much, and I'd tell you that I was spending time with myself because I loved myself."

"That always stuck with me. And when Buck came around, you still gardened just as much."

"It lit her up from the inside out," Dad says. He smiles at Mom in the way he always does: like she makes the sun come out. "That's what love is, Scottie. It's letting someone be themselves."

Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

[getwreckedddd]

Our fingers brush and I feel the electricity on our skin, radiant enough to power this street full of lights

Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

[getwreckedddd]

"I loved her so much. I thought she was perfect. When I started seeing things I wasn't so sure about, I thought the problem was me and my way of looking at things. It felt like I couldn't tell the ceiling from the floor."

"You have good intuition, honey. You're allowed to trust it," Mom says. "And you are very, very worthy. You're worthy of love you feel good about. Not just from a girl, but from yourself."

"Mom's right," Dad says. "And we can tell you that all day long, but the belief has to come from you."

Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

[dean-mikaelson]

i headcanon irene as allergic to cats and i'm saying that she started taking pills just to see scottie before they even really started dating. and she also didn't say anything because she's embarrassing and she has a crushhhh