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“I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered
if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”
― Annelyse Gelman

“The love I felt was aggressive and fraught—I loved him with panic and passion. I didn't fall in love; love fell on me. Like a ton of bricks from a great height.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Maybe he was the same. A bullet in a chamber, spending his whole life waiting for the moment he would have direction.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I break myself off into different bits to give to different people, rather than being whole. I’m so restless and unsettled. I don’t know how to be without all the things I use to prop me up.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love