Gemma

“Because I so stupidly loved her.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Heart of Betrayal

“I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Heart of Betrayal

“I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Love didn’t end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn’t command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness