Maybe I was. Maybe there was a difference between wanting to die and wondering if the ground would hurt from thirty stories up—hoping it would.
“My body knows how to live. When I take a hit, my blood clots and then scabs, and my cells fix themselves. My body just does it without any effort on my part. My mind isn’t like that. It doesn’t heal. And I haven’t figured out how to live with that.”
― It Only Hurts at First
― It Only Hurts at First
“She must be amazing.” “She is. And every day we spend together, I hope there’s another one to follow. She says she wants to live again.” His smile fades into the shy grin that melts my heart. “But I didn’t even realize I wasn’t living until I met her.”
― Between Now and Forever
― Between Now and Forever
“She's so full of light...”
― Inside Job
― Inside Job
“It was what I wanted. But if that was my real purpose, wouldn’t I be better at it?”
― King of Pride
― King of Pride
“Because at the end of the day we aren’t measured by the love we hold back. We’re measured by the love we freely give without expectation.”
― 100 Lifetimes of Us
― 100 Lifetimes of Us
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