“Maybe the fear doesn’t ever actually go away. Maybe we have to keep on working. We thought it would be simple, but it isn’t. We thought we could be finished, but maybe . . . maybe we’ll never be entirely finished.”
― Watch Over Me
― Watch Over Me
“She had the human look of a domesticated animal.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Some places hold the pain in their walls, in the carpet snags, in the cracks of the ceiling and chinks in the baseboards.”
― Woom
― Woom
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