“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”
― After You'd Gone
― After You'd Gone
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Emma
― Emma
“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”
― After You'd Gone
― After You'd Gone
“Partings are strange. It seems so simple: one minute ago, four, five, he was here, at her side; now, he is gone. She was with him; she is alone. She feels exposed, chill, peeled like an onion.”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
“She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married.”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
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