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“Our family didn’t apologize with words. We were blunt about everything else, but apologies felt stilted, strange. We showed remorse through kindness, a favor, a small gift. Sometimes we continued like normal, as though there had been no fight.”
― Catherine Dang, What Hunger

“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“even now it remains hard for me to determine how I feel about the men who had sprung from me—what to do about my deep hatred, and my bottomless love, for them.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned