I begin to think of something sarcastic to say and then realise I’m just being nasty for no reason ... other than that she makes me feel insecure.
“The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.”
― The Hawthorne Legacy
― The Hawthorne Legacy
“You think I didn’t fight the same fight? I halfway convinced myself that as long as Avery was just a riddle or a puzzle, as long as I was just playing, I’d be fine. Well, joke’s on me, because somewhere along the way, I stopped playing.”
― The Hawthorne Legacy
― The Hawthorne Legacy
“But then someone has to be the one who hangs up for the last time...don't they?”
― One Night on the Island
― One Night on the Island
“separation is made up of a million tiny disassociations that eventually add up to passing someone on the street and barely recognizing them.”
― One Night on the Island
― One Night on the Island
“I am an expert at not wanting to want things.” I held my sword up for a moment longer, then lowered it, the way he’d lowered his. “But I’m starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I’m becoming—she’s not that girl anymore.”
― The Hawthorne Legacy
― The Hawthorne Legacy
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