“No, it does make sense. Loss happens in an instant, but it lasts a lifetime.”
“Sometimes people just love each other and do right by each other and always make up for it when they make mistakes. Sometimes people are just happy together for the rest of their lives. Sometimes—sometimes it all works.”
― The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
― The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
“Perhaps it is loss that truly ages us in the end.”
― The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6
― The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6
“and even when you were eight Mother-damned years old, he knew that. You owe him nothing. Nothing.”
― The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
― The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
“Is that what you think of yourself? That everything good about you came from a fucking church?”
― The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
― The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
“That longing to be looked at lovingly? That longing to be lovable … that’s really also so much about wanting to be valued, and seen, and connected, and safe, and just deeply, fundamentally okay? Maybe we didn’t have to outsource that. Maybe we could fill that longing for ourselves.”
― The Love Haters
― The Love Haters
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