“But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.”
― Flawed
― Flawed
“Alles, was er viel tut, tue ich wenig. Lachen, reden, Freunde treffen." - S. 17”
― Nicht weg und nicht da
― Nicht weg und nicht da
“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
― Eleanor & Grey
― Eleanor & Grey
“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.”
― Perfect
― Perfect
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