Gut Punch Quotes

“But I knew, deep down, that love had never fixed anyone. It had only given them the strength to try over, and over, and over again.”
― Jordan Ifueko

“Platitudes, both his words and mine, and we both know it --- the reckoning is yet to come. But in the meantime we're operating on a surface level of civility that's nothing short of excruciating.”
― Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend

“Safe as houses" is something closer to "the house always wins". Instead of a shared structure providing shelter, it means that the person in charge is secure; everyone else should be afraid.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House