“I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know that there's nothing but light when I see you.”
― The Anatomy of Being
― The Anatomy of Being
“You cannot die from grief, though it feels like you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes you chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him so much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”
― A Stroke of Midnight
― A Stroke of Midnight
“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”
― We Were Liars
― We Were Liars
“One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65,
you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die.
However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find––
is they are not always with whom we spend our lives”
― Hunting Season
you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die.
However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find––
is they are not always with whom we spend our lives”
― Hunting Season
“You can only really grow when you start being honest with yourself about who you are in the first place.”
― I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
― I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
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