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“I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.”
― Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour

“If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.”
― J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.”
― Michael Gilbert, Perfected Sinfulness

“There are many types of pain. The only one that aspirin won't help is a hurting heart. That's why there is alcohol.”
― Brian MacLearn

“I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.”
― Nan Goldin

“Why do you think you deserve happily ever after? You were offered it before and tossed it away.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.”
― Brian MacLearn

“When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He praised the food that I cooked. He cried honestly when I brought out trinkets I had saved for the right day, the day he gave me my daughter, a tiger girl.

How could I not love this man? But it was a love of a ghost. Arms that encircled but did not touch. A bowl full of rice but without my appetite to eat it. No hunger. No fullness.

Now Saint is a ghost. He and I can now love equally. He knows the things I have been hiding all these years. Now I must tell my daughter everything. That she is a daughter of a ghost. She has no chi . This is my greatest shame. How can I leave this world without leaving her my spirit?

So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. The pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is a way a mother loves her daughter.

I hear my daughter speaking to her husband downstairs. They say words that mean nothing. They sit in a room with no life in it.

I know a thing before it happens. She will hear the table and vase crashing on the floor. She will come upstairs and into my room. Her eyes will see nothing in the darkness, where I am waiting between the trees.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“I wanted a ponytail for my 16th birthday, but daddy never bought me one. He thought that not only would I not be able to ride it, but it would also be unsuitable for a young lady to be a young man.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“she hated everything her parents loved”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place. But mostly, she hated looking at herself. Especially into this one that had a scratch on its glass surface, which would reflect back to her face. And as she looked, it would cut her as the words her father would often say, in telling her she was ugly.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The earth had two children
A son named Adam
and a daughter”
― Karan Patade

“Behind every successful man is a woman but few of us realize that behind most successful women is a man too; her father.”
― Shahla Khan, I Want Back My SPARKLE!: Breaking the global chains of gender slavery.

“He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same.”
― G.A. Aiken, A Tale of Two Dragons

“The expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. 'You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself? I've given more thought to this question than you can begin to imagine.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”
― Joseph Addison

“And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.”
― Dennis Lehane, The Given Day

“No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.”
― Lana Del Rey

“Why don’t you just pretend that the asshole dropped dead? You can’t call or write to a dead man. Put a couple of candles in front of his picture, say a few Hail Marys, and get it over with.”
― Isabel Lopez, Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams

“The fire, baby. It'll burn us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire. My warrior woman. My valkyrie. You'll always be mine. Always. And never.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill

“I met someone.' And the leaves fell from the trees, landing to float in the calm black waters.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

“Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“If you spend enough time with someone who doubts you, you can't help but believe them.”
― J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly