How many loves do you really get in a lifetime?
“I felt myself float up and away, higher and higher into the ether until my body was just an anecdote, a symbol, a portrait hanging in another world.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I know the thought of confronting your past terrifies you. It terrifies every man. But sometimes we don't do it for ourselves. We do it for the people we love more than ourselves.”
― Ugly Love
― Ugly Love
“Nothing seemed really real. Sleeping, waking, it all collided into one gray, monotonous plane ride through the clouds. I didn't talk to myself in my head. There wasn't much to say. This was how I knew the sleep was having an effect: I was growing less and less attached to life. If I kept going, I thought, I'd disappear completely, then reappear in some new form. This was my hope. This was my dream.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“There were moments I didn't care if I ever hurt again, because being with you almost felt worth the potential pain.”
― Ugly Love
― Ugly Love
“Love isn't always pretty, Tate. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.”
― Ugly Love
― Ugly Love
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