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“I wonder if he looks a little bit sad. And the thought rattles through my mind only for a second, but I wonder whether perhaps I’ve had more loves than I knew of in this lifetime.”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
“This is what loving him does to me. It ruins me. Makes me stupid, makes my body act like it’s broken.”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
“Like, fairy-tale love? Cartoon character with hearts floating all around him? Or a movie montage with the best song? That's what you were to him. You were the biggest, most impossible dream for him.”
― If Only I Had Told Her
― If Only I Had Told Her
“in that moment we’re still each other’s and time wraps around us in the infinity we thought we had but we don’t anymore because he broke us.”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
“Or maybe she’s reckoning with the fact that it just never stops feeling terribly impossible to watch someone who once was yours be with someone else.”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
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