We're a mess, Kate.
Rachel Higginson, Every Wrong Reason.
“Every time he left, I shattered apart.”
“I think you forget that I'm still alive. It's like you don't expect me to keep on existing now that I'm not in your life every day.”
“I'm not blaming you," he stated firmly. "I'm just trying to think. God, Kate, there are times when I think you hate me. When I think you would do anything to get rid of me. And then... then there's...”
“I think we've grown so far apart, we don't even know each other anymore.”
“Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him.”
“We might be different people now. But he still knew me better than anyone else.”
“I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly”
“I stayed, to love you.I left, to love myself.”
“I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.”
“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.”
“You don't know when you're twenty-three.You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're goin...”
“Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.”