“feeling a strange sense of nostalgia for a moment that was already in the process of happening.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything. I sat down on the ground to avoid tipping over from the enormity of it all.”
― Dalva
― Dalva
“People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“There are scars on my heart, just as thick, as disfiguring as those on my face. I know they’re there. I hope some undamaged tissue remains, a patch through which love can come in and flow out. I hope.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“In fact, maybe love, in the purest sense, is about being kind to someone with no expectation of how they’re going to respond. They can ignore your kindness, reject it, or return it tenfold, but you just continue to be kind, and that is love.”
― My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
― My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
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