“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”
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“He wanted to forget he'd ever yielded to the weakness of wanting anything. He wanted to scrub away any evidence that he existed outside his own head at all—that he was a visible object that anyone else could see and mock and judge.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.”
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“Rich people are fascinated by happiness,” she said. “It’s something they find maddening.”
― If I Had Your Face
― If I Had Your Face
“I always think of a passage from the Symposium, this allegory about people who started off as two halves of a whole, but then something cut them apart, and they spend their whole lives looking for their other half so they can fit themselves back together. And that's how it feels, it hurts, it's like I lost you before I was born.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
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