Strawberry Milk Fic (the series) by @wankerville - favourite quotes
and that's how it happened. Harry smiled at him and all of a sudden Louis’ life wasn't even his own anymore.
It is so terrifying how a bundle of letters and spaces can affect someone so much, make the letters stop forming and the spaces between each of them get bigger.
They don't teach you how to love broken people in school. They don't teach you how much it rips out of you, not just you, but your soul. Emptying you one by fucking one.
[…] and letting yourself be vulnerable; raw - wounds stinging as if freshly open, but jesus, does it feel good - because sometimes you need a second chance at healing, (third, fourth, fifth, lifetime.)
Sometimes, you have to keep ripping open your wounds until the skin cells finally form together the right way. It is called the future, it is called hope.
He feels so fucking guilty, he fucking thought it wasn’t that bad. Whenever the word ‘no,’ is ignored it's bad.
Recovery isn't the flip of the blinds and letting the light inside. It isn't the flick of a switch, things just don't get better instantaneously. What recovery really is, is sifting through the sofa cushions for crumbs of courage and dimes of hope. Recovery is deliberately forgetting these giant chunks of life, these pieces of unwanted grasps that you never asked for. But no matter how much you want the memories to evaporate, you cling to them, like dryer lint to black polyester. Once the ocean takes you under, the struggle to get back up is more painful than the fall into it.
That's life. It is full of good things and bad things, and you never really know where you are going to end up in the never ending kaleidoscope that is the cosmos.
But just because today is a mixture of salt and water and hushed sobs, tomorrow is a fresh start that could be snorting milk up your nose from laughing too hard. Tomorrow the kisses might feel even better than honey, they could feel like forever.
(infinity starts with a knot in the chest.)
For the covers: here and here
