“I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.”
― The Crucible
― The Crucible
“Mom, why didn't anybody tell me that love hurts so much?"
"If I had told you, would it have changed anything?”
― Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
"If I had told you, would it have changed anything?”
― Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
“There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.”
― The Bean Trees
― The Bean Trees
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“You have my heart, Jest. I don't know if you deserve it or not. I can't tell if you're a hero or a villain, but it doesn't seem to matter. Either way, my heart is yours.”
― Heartless
― Heartless
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