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“Standing on my doorstep, disguised a monster, is love begging to be let in.”

With memory removed from the equation , the present moment becomes all the more sacred.

-I spend years writing horror stories and was never once asked if there were true - but as soon I write a love story, the whole world wants to know if it’s true. As if that matters. As if the heartbreak behind it wasn’t satisfying enough; well, what if I told you it was 12% true? or 48%? What exact percentage of truth is enough for you-. How much pain do I need to endure for you to enjoy my art.

“-do you notice it too? Or does your world look the same without me in it?”

“What does one bring to a full moon ritual?” “swimming gear, warm clothes, a big towel and an open heart.”

“There’s nothing to writing, all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” -Ernest Hemingway // “don’t include the quote from Ernest Hemingway in the book, it’s pretentious - so is writing about writing”

I love the way Hazel Hayes writes

the switching of who “you” is referring to simultaneously sucker punched me and gave me butterflies

“I don’t believe in love at first sight. I don’t believe in soulmates. I believe that with 7 billion people mucking about, there’s bound to be a few that you’d happily spend the rest of your life with; some of whom you’ll never meet, some of whom you’ll meet at the wrong time, and some of whom you’ll meet and never even know you met.”

“-the ending has changed… it’s decidedly more difficult to inject a sense of whimsy into a love story when you know they break up in the end.
Now this is just another sad story with a couple that thought, for some reason, they would be different.”