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“Break his heart? I try to imagine myself having that power, holding his heart, mine to abuse, but even when I picture it pulsing and pumping in my hands, it's still the boss of me, leading me around, jerking me this way and that with me clinging and unable to let go.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“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.”
― Instructions for a Second-hand Heart
― Instructions for a Second-hand Heart
“And you grieve that the momentary beauty has faded so soon never to return, that it flashed upon you so treacherously, so vainly, grieve because you had not even time to love her...”
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“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.”
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“And in vain the dreamer rakes over his old dreams, as though seeking a spark among the embers, to fan them into flame, to warm his chilled heart by the rekindled fire, and to rouse up in it again all that was so sweet, that touched his heart, that set his blood boiling, drew tears from his eyes, and so luxuriously deceived him!”
― White Nights
― White Nights
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