• “‘Are people so unhappy when they love?’ ‘Yes, Christine when they love and are not sure of being loved.’”
  • “I don’t know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.”
  • “I see everyone and no one in myself.”
  • “The hardest battle you will ever have to fight is between who you are now and who you want to be.”
  • “There’s a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”
  • “We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.”
  • “Weak. I am so weak. Maybe I’m too weak. Or maybe I’m too kind. Or maybe people mistake my kindness for weakness. Or maybe it’s both.”
  • “When you don’t know what you’re living for, you don’t care how you live from one day to the next. You’re happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you’re going to live for tomorrow.”
  • “You, he said, are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
  • “Sad are only those who understand.”
  • “I want to be with you, it is as simple, and as complicated as that.”
  • “I found myself in your absence.”
  • “When we meet again, I’ll be another me and you’ll be another you, and if we can fit again, there is no other love that is quite as true.”
  • “Sometimes it’s harder to say goodbye to places than to people.”
  • “You’re always thinking. And I’m always wondering what about.”
  • “Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.”
  • “I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”
  • “I observed the things people loved about me I mimicked them endlessly hoping I would learn to love them too”
  • “She was afraid to want things for herself. She didn’t think she deserved them.”
  • “I believe I was a little in love with you.”
  • “In fact, I have no real friend but you, and when I am in low spirits, I always think of you. I only wish you were here, that we might again talk together about moving to the country.”
  • “But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.”
  • “Getting over it doesn’t mean forgetting it. It just means reducing the pain to a tolerable level, a level that doesn’t destroy you.”
may 16 2015 ∞
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