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“He needed to tell her…what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn’t pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he’d begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“You've suppressed all your rage and resentment because you wanted to be loved.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“But time is beyond our finite comprehension. It's endless, it exists outside of us; we cannot run out of it or lose track of it of find a way to hold onto it. Time goes on even when we do not.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“My face is in his hands and my lips are at his lips and he's kissing me and I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me