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“Know what the problem with your generation is? You refuse to understand that love has a price. That’s what makes it significant, pungent, rich. It costs you anger, jealousy, heartbreak, time, money, health…”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Love is selfish. Love is raw. Love is unfair, and unpredictable, and unstoppable.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Not all love stories are written the same way. Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“What if tomorrow never comes?” I whispered. “Then, my darling boy, we’ll make the best of today.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Life is like a book, a long chain of scenes threaded together by circumstances and fate. You never know how thick or thin your book is, so you better make the most out of every scene, enjoy each chapter.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“If you love someone, don’t set them free. Smother the fuck out of them until they realize they have no chance of escaping. Yup. That was the sentiment I was down with, a method I was willing to try.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“The heart doesn’t ask for permission to feel things. It simply feels.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Always. Whenever. Forever.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Moonshine,” he whispered. “You fill up the empty, dark space—like the moon owns the sky. It is quiet. It is bright. It doesn’t need to be a ball of flame to be noticed. It simply exists. It forever glows.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“If you think you’ve found something good without anything bad in it, it just means you haven’t examined it close enough.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“There will be no one else, Moonshine.I will never let you get over me.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“I love you,” I whispered into his suit. My words had life, and weight, and a pulse. I said them again. “I love you, Dad. I love you. I love you. I love you.” He lifted me up like I was a little girl, spinning me in place and burying his nose in my hair. Tears rolled down our faces. The pen bled the last of its ink, marking this page in our lives forever in my father’s office. I knew, with certainty that made my heart swell, that he was not going to replace that carpet. He was going to look at it every day, remember the day it had happened, and cherish it. “I love you, too, baby girl.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“I didn’t want to kiss her. I wanted to zip open my skin and tuck her into me. Hide her from the world and keep her mine.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Don’t baby me. I’m not your home. People don’t ruin their homes; they build them. They cherish them.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.” —Mary Oliver”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Don’t be a Rosie. Be a Dean. If you want something, no matter what it is, go for it. Falling in love is rare.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“She could tell me a thousand things with her eyebrows alone, this girl. Sometimes I wanted to shave them off just to spite her.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“the fact that we aren’t here forever is exactly what we need to make the most out of life.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Hit-and-run or struck by lightning—a death was a death.

A heartbreak was a heartbreak.

Pain was pain.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“I love your brother and your father more than I love myself. I would die for them. Fight for them until the bitter end. Go against the whole world for them. But you…” She dragged her face up to look at me. Her eyes were full of tears. “I’ve always loved you just a tiny bit more. My regal, rebel boy. My legendary hellraiser, my sad prince, my unlikely savior, my beautiful, broken Knight.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“We break things all the time. It’s called life. If you don’t break, you don’t live. You don’t move. You don’t try. You don’t take chances. Breaking is a part of living.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Maybe sometimes we make people monsters in our heads because we can’t understand them.

Maybe we don’t understand them because we don’t try to.

And maybe we don’t try to because we’re scared.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“She was in a probing mood, and I wasn’t in the business of denying my mother anything, especially when she’d spent the past week throwing up mucus, retching all night. Dad had put pillows all around their bathroom floor, and they sat there all night, every night. I heard them talk and laugh and whisper. Whenever she felt good enough, anyway.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“I can’t live without you
But I also can’t contain all this pain, Moonshine."

“Then let me carry some of it, too.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Dreams are just our reality on hold, Moonshine.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“I will always be in the right headspace to be inside you.
You’re my home.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Here’s the thing about love—it’s an uncomfortable feeling. It pushes your boundaries.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Experience had taught me that time was good at two things: healing and killing.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“We’re all ugly, Ryen. The only difference is, some hide it and some wear it.”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57

“She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57