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"That's how love is supposed to feel. Like earth. It grounds you. All this nonsense about love being a drug, making you feel high, that's not real. It should hold you like the earth."

"People are like this too, you know," he says eventually. "We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don't have to hide them."

"People who feel the need to say 'I'm fine' are never fine, sweetheart," she says.

Okay, so I am not pretty. Some people have diabetes. Some people have six toes. Some people get caught in forest fires and suffer third-degrees burns all over their body.

Seriously? Saying that's the same as not being pretty? Classy writing, gosh this is detestable

When the darkestpart of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light.

"I think men are taught to buy things for women, yes. Not because we want to own you or control you, but because it's a way to show we're interested or we care that doesn't require much, I don't know, vulnerability. We're not taught to communicate the way you are. We're given these very limited, primitive tools to express ourselves, and, yes, buying a fucking meal is one of them."