Matt

“(And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.)”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“I don’t think you really love me; I think you’re just terrified of being alone,”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“He has sincerely wanted to die, but he has never sincerely wanted Marianne to forget about him. That’s the only part of himself he wants to protect, the part that exists inside her. ”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“She'd climbed into his heart without thinking, the way that a kid idly tongues a loose tooth.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory