Angela Tang

“Love is crushing. Love is something you let yourself feel at your own peril, despite your better sense.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“My entire life I've done my best to not feel much of anything. Feeling almost always led to hurting and I didn't want to hurt anymore. So I decided not to. But I think somewhere along the way, that choice became a habit I didn't know how to break. I stopped believing in good things. I stopped believing in anything at all.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“But I’m not good at saying that I feel hurt or forgotten or rejected. There had been no room for that growing up. I’m more skilled at burying those emotions. Or hiding them in my fiction.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“He's made it very clear he can't give me what i want, and I'm not in the habit of pushing people. I'm going to believe what he says. I'm not going to beg him to be something he's not. I won't beg him to want me.”
― B.K. Borison