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“No matter how much he hurt me, I need to make sure he's okay. And besides, if having Leo for a brother taught me anything, it's that love isn't a tap you turn off when you don't want to care any more. It seeps into your soul, wears a path to your heart and leaves an unbearable emptiness when it's gone.”
― Tamsyn Murray, Instructions for a Second-hand Heart

“There can be no doubt that loneliness is dangerous to active minds. We need round us men who think and talk. When we live alone for long periods, we people the void with phantoms.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Horla

“I'll add the God-myth itself, since our conceptions of the artificer-creator, to whatever religion they belong, are really the most uninspired, the most unintelligent, the most inacceptable products of the fear-clouded brain of human beings.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Horla

“Would I want him back? No. I don't want to hate him, and I know he's better than this, but we pushed it, because we needed to grab onto something once upon a time. We forced what wasn't there, not because we needed each other, but because we needed someone.”
― Penelope Douglas