“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”
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“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.”
― The Portable Henry Rollins
― The Portable Henry Rollins
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
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