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“Sometimes we hold so tightly to the hurt from the past that we miss the happiness ahead,”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“I wish someone had told me that love isn’t torture. Because I thought love was this thing that was supposed to tear you in two and leave you heartbroken and make your heart race in the worst way. I thought love was bombs and tears and blood. I did not know that it was supposed to make you lighter, not heavier. I didn’t know it was supposed to take only the kind of work that makes you softer. I thought love was war. I didn’t know it was supposed to… I didn’t know it was supposed to be peace.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He got close to the sun and was immortalized for it.” Malfoy’s voice catches and she hears something else. A faint thread loose between firmly set works that resembles acceptance. “And the world will remember dim forever only for his sin.”
― SereneMusafir, Green Light