“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.”
― Dear John
― Dear John
“Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.”
― Crescendo
― Crescendo
“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Anna and the French Kiss
― Anna and the French Kiss
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