- this is not about love; i am not in love.
- i had forgotten, all the times that we loved each other
- "do you want to die together?"
- we'll wait out the end of the world together.
- somehow it feels like we’ve done this before.
- we scar in different ways.
- come back and make up a goodbye at least. let’s pretend we had one.
- “show me a hero, and i’ll write you a tragedy.”
- “every love story is a ghost story.”
- “which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”
- "once, a long time ago, you told me, “loneliness exists past death.”
- maybe in another life, we might have been good to each other.
- “i know a lot about closing doors, but not enough about what opens up yours.”
- “the world sucks,” someone once said. “the world sucks, you get old, then you die, and no one will even remember your name.”
- "un the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."
- "but everyone disappears, no matter who loves them."
- "in one aspect, yes, i believe in ghosts, but we create them. we haunt ourselves."
- "the three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveller saying ‘anywhere but here.’"
- "growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. i'm glad for that."
- "whisper a dangerous secret to someone you care about. now they have the power to destroy you, but they won’t. this is what love is."
- "one thing you learn when you’ve lived as long as i have - people aren’t all good, and people aren’t all bad. we move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives."
- when things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it’s because a little piece gets lost – the two remaining ends couldn’t fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.
- she asked, ‘you are in love, what does love look like?’ to which i replied, ‘like everything i’ve ever lost came back to me'.
- before meeting you, i didn’t know what it was like to feel lonely. i never even considered myself alone. that’s because when you feel lonely, it means there is someone for you to miss.
- i wish there was someone i could have written to after that, someone i could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.
- it’s easy to forget the ones with whom we have been kind. but we can never forget the ones that we’d hurt. that’s human nature.
- "things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. they happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."
- is evil something you do or something you are?
- not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.
- “i don’t just want your heart. i want your flesh, your skin and blood and bones, your voice, your thoughts, your pulse and most of all your fingerprints, everywhere.”
- "i have buried you in every place i’ve been. you keep ending up in my shaking hands."
- i interviewed a woman who is terminally ill. ‘so,’ i tried to delicately ask, ‘what is it like to wake up every morning and know that you are dying?’ ‘well,’ she responded, ‘what is it like to wake up every morning and pretend that you are not?’
jul 5 2014 ∞
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