“People are like this too, you know,” he says eventually. “We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don’t have to hide them.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“Our eyes hold like our hands won’t. I love you, he blinks. Prove it, I sigh.”
― Magnolia Parks
― Magnolia Parks
“Can you die from a broken heart, do you know? And if I did and they cut me wide open, would I bleed loving him? When they lift my heart out of my chest cavity to weigh it, does it weigh the same as his top lip? Is his name carved into my third rib to the left? Bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh. He's killing me. Loving him is killing me too, and I'm afraid because how many loves really, do you get in a lifetime? How many chances do you give it before you let it go?”
― Magnolia Parks
― Magnolia Parks
“Painful things can still be beautiful things, in case you didn’t know.”
― Magnolia Parks
― Magnolia Parks
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