- ❝another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas i am merely in disguise.❞
- cat's eye, margaret atwood
- ❝i love him (...) because he's more myself than i am. whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.❞
- wuthering heights, emily brontë
- ❝forgive me, for all the things i did but mostly for the ones that i did not.❞
- the secret history, donna tartt
- ❝the power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.❞
- les misérables, victor hugo
- ❝you could rattle the stars. you could do anything, if you only dared. and deep down, you know it too, and that's what scares you the most.❞
- throne of glass, sarah j. maas
- ❝that is my problem with life, i rush through it, like i'm being chased. even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. when i drink relaxing tea, i suck it down as if i'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest. or if i'm in a hot tub with some other people and we're all looking up at the stars, i'll be the first to say, it's so beautiful here. the sooner you say, it's so beautiful here, the quicker you can say, wow, i'm getting overheated.❞
- no one belongs here more than you, miranda july
- ❝come back. even as a shadow, even as a dream."
- ❝you care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.❞
- harry potter and the order of the phoenix, jk rowling
- ❝"i suppose you do love me, in your way", i said to him one night close to dawn when we lay on the narrow bed. "and how else should i love you - in your way?" he asked. i am still thinking about that.❞
- plainwater: essays and poetry, anne carson
- ❝feeling sorry for myself was an art. i think a part of me liked doing that.❞
- aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe, benjamin alire sáenz
- ❝marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.❞
- normal people, sally rooney
- ❝nobody promised me a happy ending, they didn't even promise me a happy existence.❞
- beneath the sugar sky, seanan mcguire
oct 14 2019 ∞
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