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“Blink, and the years fall away like leaves.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“...this one, hoarding, heartbreaking expression of love that would have only made Marty's self-inflicted wounds deeper, was enough. This is how love kills.”
― Bucky F*cking Dent
― Bucky F*cking Dent
“Ted remained seated at the kitchen table, marveling at how big the emptiness inside him felt, and how the smallest thing, a sideways word from his father, could tear it open, and how the smallest thing, a kiss from his father, stitched it up in light.”
― Bucky F*cking Dent
― Bucky F*cking Dent
“They could barely see each other. It was safe to love each other in the dark, Ted thought. They couldn't see how badly they loved each other, how they always botched it, didn't have to own that chasm of need. Ted felt his father's soul open up to the kiss like one of those plants that only grow at night, he thought, without any irony. A nightshade. My father the nightshade.”
― Bucky F*cking Dent
― Bucky F*cking Dent
“Perhaps they hadn’t met for a long time. A long, long time. Perhaps when they last held each other like that, they were still young.’ ‘Do you mean, Manager, that they lost each other?’ She was quiet for another moment. ‘Yes,’ she said, eventually. ‘That must be it. They lost each other. And perhaps just now, just by chance, they found each other again.”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
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