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“He’s a perfectly good boyfriend,” Cath would say. “He’s an end table,” Wren would answer. “He’s always there for me.” “… to set magazines on.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“No matter what I do, no matter where I try to find joy, I instead find my trauma. And it whispers to me: "I will make you miserable forever. And then I will kill you”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

“When the sky falls, use it as a blanket," she repeated to me, day after day. "Big things, make small. Small things make nothing. When someone wrongs you, never keep it in your heart. Let it go.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

“I want to have words for what my bones know. I want to use those gifts when they serve me and understand and forgive them when they do not.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“I am the trauma you bury away. I am the lie you hold under your tongue, the thing you bury, vanish, erase, the thing you always pretend is forgotten as long as you don't touch it.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

“I am blood and sin. I am the sum total of my parents' regrets. I am their greatest shame”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

“The present wasn't really the ring. The present wasn't even really the proposal. The present was three years of barbecues and escape rooms and raspberry pear pies, wine prayers exchanged at Passover and late-night movie screenings. It was the fact that when I needed help moving, washing dishes, figuring out what board games to buy, there was always someone there. The present was this little tribe of reliable people who considered me a part of them. It was this feeling of belonging.
You're ours.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

“I'm just noticing things. All the time”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

“So this is healing then, the opposite of the ambiguous dread: fullness. I am full of anger, pain, peace, love, of horrible shards and exquisite beauty, and the lifelong challenge will be to balance all of those things while keeping them in the circle. Healing is never final. It is never perfection. But along with the losses are the triumphs.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

“Even though I must always carry the weight of grief on my back, I have become strong. My legs and shoulders are long, hard bundles of muscle. The burden is lighter than it was. I no longer cower and crawl my way through this world. Now, I hitch my pack up. And as I wait for the beast to come, I dance.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

“I'd rather be broken than wasted.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. "You're magic," she said.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I really like you [...] Like, really like you. And I want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not the end.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“A little manic was what their house ran on.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Come home with me, Cath. I miss you. And I don't want to say good night. - Levi.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Over and over, the answer is the same, isn’t it? Love, love, love. The salve and the cure. In order to become a better person, I had to do something utterly unintuitive. I had to reject the idea that punishing myself would solve the problem. I had to find the love.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“But the sadness of a lost childhood feels like yearning, impossible desire. It feels like a hollow, insatiable hunger.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“God, she had forced a married man, a father, to kiss her. Now people thought that he was having an affair. His wife was probably crying into her pillow. His kids would grow up with horrible daddy issues and become serial killers.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“Write it down," he had told me.
"Write down every word once you get there,
Before the truth is forgotten"
And now we do, at least the parts we remember”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“When I watch you sleep," he said shakily, "I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Maybe she, like her father, was incapable of the love she'd spent her life chasing. Or maybe that love simply didn't exist.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“The message was ironic. The butterflies in my chest were not.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“It doesn't matter if I believe it can work or not," he said. "Not believing in something doesn't stop you from wanting it. If you're not careful.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“It was an unabashed moment, a comfortable silence. The kind of thing that, if I had been writing it, I might've thought I could skip right over.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“How do you know I didn't seduce you?"
His smile crooked higher. "Because you wouldn't have had to.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Since I started these letters, I've been a million different things, some good and some ugly.
But today, on your twenty-eighth birthday, I feel like the same man I was all those years ago.
Staring at you. Counting your fingers.
Wondering what it is that makes you so different from the rest of the world. I don't know when it happened, but I'm happy again. I think, even if things don't stay like this, I will always carry this moment in me. How could I ever be sad, having watched my baby grow into the woman she is?
January, you are twenty-eight, and today I am your father.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“What a ridiculous creature. Happy that I put butter on his sandwich. As if I wouldn't make the world spin backwards if I thought he'd like it better that way.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“I know I'll never love anyone like I love Baz. I know he's the love of my life. Of all my lives.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“You.. love me?''
Snow nods. ''Yeah,'' he says, ''of course.''
Like it's obvious.
It isn't obvious. It has not been obvious.
''You never said,'' I say.
''Haven't I?''
''No.''
He frowns. ''I thought- I mean... I've killed so many things for you.''
I laught. It might be another sob, but mabe it's just a laugh. ''What are you, a house cat? Am I supposed to know how you feel because you brought me a mouse?''
The corner of Snow's mouth twitches.
''I brought you a cow once, remember? And I killed that chimera for you in fifth year.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“This thing between us didn't start with us dating. It didn't even start when you kissed me. You're in me so deep, I wouldn't know how to dig you out. I may get fed up with you... But, Simon, I'll never get tired of you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows