“The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow”
― The Tide Breaker
― The Tide Breaker
“It's such a huge arrogance to love someone, and there's too much of it around. There's too much love in this world. Sometimes I think that's what heavens is-- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away.
Never enough to make them love you.”
― First Against the Wall
Never enough to make them love you.”
― First Against the Wall
“Losing Abby wasn't a story I remembered from early childhood--it was in my face, debilitating me like a sickness, robbing me of my senses and physically, excruciatingly painful. My mother's words echoed in my ear. Abby was the girl I had to fight for, and I went down fighting. None of it was ever going to be enough.”
― Walking Disaster
― Walking Disaster
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone”
― The Carolinian
From an Irish headstone”
― The Carolinian
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