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“You can’t patch up someone forgetting about you. For the rest of your life you’ll always be worrying that they’ll forget about you the same way they did before. You’ll always know that they’d be a hundred percent fine without you but you wouldn’t be a hundred percent fine without them.”
― Words in Deep Blue
― Words in Deep Blue
“There should be a disconnect button you can push when someone leaves: you’ve fucked me over; therefore I no longer love you. I’m not asking for the button to be connected to an ejector seat that removes them from the universe, just one small button that removes them from your heart.”
― Words in Deep Blue
― Words in Deep Blue
“And love . . . if you nurture it well, love will always be there to keep you strong”
― Hitched
― Hitched
“Second hand books have a way of travelling, sure. But what travels forward can come back.”
― Words in Deep Blue
― Words in Deep Blue
“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
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