“Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; somthing you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“Eleanor loved to tell me that life is shit. She told me every week. She told me it was going to disappoint me. She reminded me that there was nothing I could do to control it. I relaxed into that inevitability.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.”
― Every Day
― Every Day
“So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just. . .' She searched for the appropriate term and found it. 'A load of bullshit.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“About fireworks?"
"About love. About how we often mistake love for fireworks---for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm--and constant.”
― The Silent Patient
"About love. About how we often mistake love for fireworks---for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm--and constant.”
― The Silent Patient
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