“I don't have to tell you I love you. I fed you pancakes.”
― Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
― Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
“All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that's the tragedy of living.”
― I Wrote This For You
― I Wrote This For You
“When I sit near you, my hands suddenly become alien things and I don't know where to put them or what they usually do, like this is the first time I've ever had hands and maybe they go in my pockets and maybe they don't.”
― I Wrote This For You
― I Wrote This For You
“everything she meant to say was
you've given a worth and happiness to my life
that I had no right to believe could ever exist”
― Visiting Hours
you've given a worth and happiness to my life
that I had no right to believe could ever exist”
― Visiting Hours
“What I said was
I’ll miss you
what I meant to say was
I love you
what I wanted to say was
that I meant what I said
and it’s funny
how all those things I
could have said
flooded my head after we said goodbye
and I should have told you
I’d be willing to hold you
until my flesh crumbles into bone
because I’m willing to die alone
but god knows I don’t want to live that way.”
―
I’ll miss you
what I meant to say was
I love you
what I wanted to say was
that I meant what I said
and it’s funny
how all those things I
could have said
flooded my head after we said goodbye
and I should have told you
I’d be willing to hold you
until my flesh crumbles into bone
because I’m willing to die alone
but god knows I don’t want to live that way.”
―
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