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“You know, if you just gave in, I would be worshiping you right now instead of chasing you,” he whispered in my ear. “Though it is rather exhilarating when you play hard to get.”
“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“I wish it were possible to catch a compliment, to hold it in the cage of your hands like a firefly and never let it go. But . . . it isn’t. The high is transient.”
― Cackle
― Cackle
“I wonder how much of a woman’s life is spent this way. Enduring. Waiting for enjoyment or, fuck it, death.”
― Cackle
― Cackle
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“My favorite books, love songs, movies, the ones that resonated with me, have kept me grieving long after I turned the last page, the notes faded out, or the credits rolled. Because of that, I believed it, because I made myself believe it, and I bred the most masochistic of romantic hearts, which resulted in my illness. When I lived this story, my own twisted fairy tale, it was unbeknownst to me at the time because I was young and naïve. I gave into temptation and fed that beating beast, which grew thirstier with every slash, every strike, every blow. That’s the novelty of fiction versus reality. You can’t re-live your own love story because, by the time you’ve realized you’re living it, it’s over. At least that was the case for me.”
― Flock
― Flock
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