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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.”
― Charles Bukowski

“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

“We are all made of flesh and stars, but we all become dust in the end. Best to shine while you can.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Sometimes I think it's best to say nothing at all, silence cannot be misquoted.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Nana used to say that if you don't let the tears out of you they can turn to poison.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“The voices in my head are louder than the silence in the room. The loudest is my own, reminding me constantly of all the things I have said and done, all the things I haven’t, all the things I should have.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“I bookmark that thought.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Some people are ghosts before they are dead.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“...we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. —SIGMUND FREUD”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Once you name something, it stops you seeing the whole of it, or why it matters. You focus on the word, which is just the tiniest part, really, the tip of an iceberg.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“My old therapist used to say intimacy requires the repeated experience of being responded to—and that doesn’t happen overnight.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness: an act of possession that instantly gives way to nothing. It reminded me that there was a world outside this house: a world of vastness and unimaginable beauty; a world that for now, remained out of my reach. That memory had repeatedly returned to me over the years. It's as if the misery that surrounded that brief moment of freedom made it burn even brighter: a tiny light surrounded by darkness.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“No one is likable from the inside out.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“I stretch truths where I see fit. I’m a writer.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“It’s natural, to assume the worst in people, even if that assumption is only for a split second”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Vol. 1

“We should not shed tears
That is a surrender of the body to the heart
It is only proof
That we are beings that do not know
What to do with out hearts”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Vol. 1

“People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them.”
― Tite Kubo

“I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty." -Kuchiki Rukia”
― Tite Kubo

“If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring Humans, and from the same mouth you devoured Humans, you cried out to me 'I love you!', would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?”
― Tite Kubo

“We must never shed tears
That is the life form’s defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.”
― Tite Kubo

“I wonder can I carry on with the speed of the world without you in it.”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach―ブリーチ― 49 [Burīchi 49]