“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
― The Notebook
― The Notebook
“It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn’t honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning —that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.”
― A Short Stay in Hell
― A Short Stay in Hell
“...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”
― All These Things I've Done
― All These Things I've Done
“If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.”
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”
― Clockwork Prince
― Clockwork Prince
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