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“Suffer" he commanded seductively. "With me...or because of me.”
“When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to as...”
“we know God is dead, they toldus, but listening to you I wasn sure. maybeit was the upper case. you were one of thebest female poets and I told the publishers, editors, her, print her, she mad but...”
“Heres the truth: I am the female version of a heartbreaker. The one that everyone says is too dedicated to ballet, too self-involved to ever care about anyone else besides herself. Im the rebel. Th...”
“Maybe I'm crying because I'm terrified that he's come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.”
“We were perfectly placed, perfectly disposed to one another. Our pieces fit so well together, not in the way that puzzle pieces are carved to click, but in a clumsier, more accidental way; we were ...”
“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and ...”
“Yeah, you lose this attitude, I can help you work that hurt out.Who was this man? He held onto his tragedy for seventeen fucking years, how could he stand there and tell mehe could help me work thr...”
“Cash looked at her, square in the eye, and his jaw twitched. She flinched, then braced herself. For what, she wasnt sure, but just being near him made her feel like she was made of glass. Like anyt...”
“He turned around and I felt the shards of my broken heart crumble to dust.”
“But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.”
“Because I know if I sit down and start to write out how it feels. it all becomes too real the pain becomes too much. But that's the weird part because I feel so empty, like there no longer is a hea...”
“I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.”
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
“I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think Im bullet-proof, but Im not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are”
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
“I don't know you. The only thing I know about you is, you're reading this. I don't know if your happy or not; I don't know whether you're young or not. I sort of hope you're young and sad. If you'r...”
“Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing. ”
“Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.”
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”
