“You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.
It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.”
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.”
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
“I close my eyes and try and shut him out. My fingers don’t want to stay in time. They want to race ahead in fury, plunging into the dense fog of black notes, pulling the music out by its roots, hurling it up out of the piano and into the air.”
― A Voice in the Distance
― A Voice in the Distance
“When we love someone, we’re held hostage by fate, because if we lose that person, then we, too, are lost.”
― Innocence
― Innocence
“I'm writing it in a letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.”
― Why We Broke Up
― Why We Broke Up
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