Shirley

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

“She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt before. He kissed her and slowed and would have stopped. But she laughed, and said that this one time she would consent to hurt, and bleed, at his touch. He smiled into her neck and kissed her again and she moved with him through the pain. The pain became a warmth that grew. Grew, and stopped her breath. And took her breath and her pain and her mind away from her body, so that there was nothing but her body and his body and the light and fire they made together.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“You cry, girl. You cry all you want, and when you're through and all this pain is nothing but a memory, I will find a way to make you smile. Do you hear me China Brown? That's a promise from me to you.”
― Sharon Sala, Butterfly