Cindy

“Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered.
“Courage, Ta­tiana.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

“Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you, now on top of you with this scourge marks, and you, who used to love me, who was sympathized, internalized, normalized everything, you are not allowed to turn away from me....this is what I am going to look like until the day I die. I can't get any peace from you ever unless you find away to make peace with this. Make peace with me. Or let me go for good.”
― Paullina Simons, The Summer Garden

“I'm protecting what's mine."
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"I'm not yours," I said.
"You're welcome to think that but it doesn't change the fact that you are.”
― Kristen Ashley, Rock Chick Redemption

“All I want,” she said softly to the dark, “is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you—just because I am.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes