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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me... when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

Charles Bukowski

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

they were inventing their own type of relationship, one that wasn’t officially recognized by history or immortalized in poetry or song, but which felt truer and less constraining.

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

they were inventing their own type of relationship, one that wasn’t officially recognized by history or immortalized in poetry or song, but which felt truer and less constraining.

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

It was like walking into the sun, being with you... it was like walking into the sun for the first time after a terribly long winter.

~ Azra T., You are the warmest place I've ever lived in

Sometimes I want to scream but screaming is not in my nature, so I shut down and sleep for days and days and days until I wake up and feel completely silenced.

~ Juansen Dizon, Flashbacks

Swallow the tears back often enough and they’ll start feeling like acid dripping down your throat.

It’s that terrible moment when you’re sitting still so still so still because you don’t want them to see you cry you don’t want to cry but your lips won’t stop trembling and your eyes are filled to the brim with please and I beg you and please and I’m sorry and please and have mercy and maybe this time it’ll be different but it’s always the same. There’s no one to run to for comfort. No one on your side. Light a candle for me, I used to whisper to no one. Someone. Anyone. If you’re out there. Please tell me you can feel this fire.

~ Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together.

Jeanette Winterson

You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.

Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

I miss that feeling of connection....knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.

Ranata Suzuki

How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?

Doc Luben, Love Letters or Suicide Notes

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.

Sally Rooney, Normal People

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