Everyone has things they hide from the world.
The darkness that calls to them when it’s quiet and lonely.
K. Bromberg, Hard to Lose
If life can remove someone you never dreamed of losing, it can replace them with someone you never dreamt of having.
Rachel Wolchin
You don’t realize how much of your childhood affects the person you become, the person you are. How memories shape your life, your feelings, and most importantly your love.
The struggle between the things we couldn’t change but wanted to versus the things we could change but didn’t know how to.
Felt as if I was forever standing in the same spot.
Living a life of loneliness was simply the only way I knew how to live.
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cosmoM. Robinson, Lost Boy Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I
See you cryin' (cryin, cryin')
Feelin' all alone without a friend
You know you feel like dyin' (dyin', dyin')
Cheap Trick, I want you to want me
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Kocham aż boleśnie światła świtów
Rozpękniete jak dojrzały owoc granata
Pestki rozsypane w piasku
Chcę to przeżywać ciągle na nowo
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hormeza Maybe I am a little bit envious. But not of the guy or even the relationship . . . more of the ability to have such a relationship. After a few completely bland liaisons over the years, I’ve decided that I just don’t have that thing in me that lets people fall in love.
Cora Carmack, All Played Out
Because that’s love, Mia. I take care of you before me.
Lisa Renee Jones, Beautiful Betrayal
I always thought I was completely numb to feeling. I assumed there would never be a man to draw me out of my shell. It’s silly now that I used to worry about my ability to fall in love, like that part of me was permanently undeveloped or broken.
R.S. Grey, Fighting Words
“Grief is like a monster. That monster is hungry. It eats whatever’s inside you. But one day you wake up…and find out that it’s full. That it is satisfied.”
“What happens when it’s full?”
“It’s still a monster, but it’s no longer scary.”
“Sounds terrible.” I scrunch my nose.
She leans back in the rocking chair, mulling it over.
“Sounds like life to me. We’re bound to get hurt. Life is a journey, and no road worth taking is smooth and bumpless. Life is a borrow, not a gift, Levy. Take advantage as long as you have it.”
L. J. Shen, Damaged Goods
“When you see him, I want you to do something for me.”
“What’s that?”
“Ask him if he feels like he might die if he doesn’t get to touch you again.”
I frown. “Why would I ask him that?” I whisper.
“Because there’s another man who does.” The phone clicks as he hangs up.
T. L. Swan, The Stopover
Oh, baby, the only place that would ever be hell to me is one where you’re not with me. Even if our souls are damned to burn for eternity, as long as you’re there, I don’t really give a shit. As long as you’re there, it’ll be heaven to me.
Lucy Smoke, Natural Born Killers
What happens when you learn you need love, but then you don’t have it?
Liz Tomforde, Mile High
This is what I wanted. I never admitted it out loud, even to myself. But this is what my secret heart always wanted.
Someone who would not be unable to tear themselves away.
Someone who would choose me over everything.
Skye Warren, One for the Money
I wasn’t beautiful inside. I was full of sadness, of loneliness, of...ache, but my shell hid it all. Hid me behind this facade.
Bella Di Corte, Skin Deep
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