“What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”
― Straight Up and Dirty
― Straight Up and Dirty
“We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you."
"I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.”
― Spirit Bound
"I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.”
― Spirit Bound
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
― Hearts in Atlantis
― Hearts in Atlantis
“When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she had steeled herself. The last time she saw him she was standing on a platform in the tunnelbana at Gamla Stan and he was sitting in the train on his way downtown. She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck you.”
― The Girl Who Played with Fire
― The Girl Who Played with Fire
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