“We break the pattern before the pattern breaks us.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
“i'm holding only one photo now, and I have to force myself, beg myself to look at it, the square polaroid shaking in my trembling hand.
It's a picture of a little boy standing next to a little girl. she's sitting in a stairwell. He looks at her as she eats a piece of cake.
I flip it over
Aaron and Ella”
― Restore Me
It's a picture of a little boy standing next to a little girl. she's sitting in a stairwell. He looks at her as she eats a piece of cake.
I flip it over
Aaron and Ella”
― Restore Me
“Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it seems easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet.
My mother went through it.
I went through it.
I'll be damned if I allow my daughter to go through it.
I kiss her on the forehead and make her a promise. "It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― It Ends with Us
My mother went through it.
I went through it.
I'll be damned if I allow my daughter to go through it.
I kiss her on the forehead and make her a promise. "It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― It Ends with Us
“I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.”
― A Court of Wings and Ruin
― A Court of Wings and Ruin
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