“Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too large a pleasure she could not endure. If pain was love, then she loved fiercely. Yet knew she could not be near that boy again.”
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“She didn't add the elements that allowed me to proceed down a different path. She lent a spark, perhaps, or tendered the flame, but the arson was mine.”
― The Beginning of Everything
― The Beginning of Everything
“And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.”
― The Beginning of Everything
― The Beginning of Everything
“Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.”
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“She tasted like buried treasure and swing sets and coffee. She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.”
― The Beginning of Everything
― The Beginning of Everything
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