Jessalyn
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All the good things in the world shouldn’t make up for the best thing we had but lost.
“Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.”
― Outlander
― Outlander
“He’s a broken man, but he isn’t broken because of me. He was broken before he met me. Sometimes people think if they love a broken person enough, they can be what finally repairs them, but the problem with that is the other person just ends up broken, too.”
― It Starts with Us
― It Starts with Us
“She does not know if it was love, or simply a reprieve. If contentment can compete with passion, if warmth will ever be as strong as heat. But it was a gift”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. The day the experiment succeeds is the day the experiment ends. And I inevitably find that the sadness of ending outweighs the celebration of success.”
― The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
― The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
“As long as she has a book to read, she's not bothered.”
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