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Too much of any one thing is no good. Not even luck. For those whose life comes easy, their character can be weak.”
tragedy makes a man feel helpless,
“I’m not normal or safe or dull. I’m not scared of pain or death, Hen. I’m only scared of losing the few people I love.” Tears swelled in her ducts and trembled. “I can’t afford to lose any more of you when there were so few to start with.”
He is fearful for you because he doesn’t understand you, and for a smart man, there is nothing to fear more than that which he doesn’t know.”
“Rén zhōng zhī long.” A dragon among men.
You couldn’t test the strength of their character from a collection of facts found on the internet.
"A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind." — Chinese proverb
But sometimes we gotta tell ourselves lies to get through the hard times,
You didn’t fall in love with someone simply because they were nice. Nice should be a given, a social prerogative. You fell in love with someone because they felt like the only person who could see through your skin and bones straight down to the soul, and even knowing all of you––the good, the bad, the motherfucking ugly––they still accepted you.
“You are the human personification of a pain in my fuckin’ ass,”
He’s worse than useless.”
“Take it from a man who knows, sometimes showin’ up for someone is the biggest act of love there is.”
“Sometimes, sayin’ somethin’s stupid is just a cowardly way outta takin’ a chance on bein’ brave.”
She looked like an angel of death, something dangerous and capable, someone whose very kiss might be lethal.
After all the battles I’d fought in my life, it should’ve occurred to me fate would give me a fighter to stand at my side and have my back. Someone as fierce as she was lovely.
“A freaking stalemate. Just, don’t fuck around here, Dad. For all our sakes. You guys deserve to be happy, and you both have a bad habit of forgetting that.”
“You deserve everythin’, and I’m gonna be the one to give it to you,” I swore, kissin’ her again ’cause she was alive, and she was mine.
I would wade through a lake of blood for you. I would dig ’til the bowels of hell opened under my raw, stingin’ hands. I would cut out my own heart and would barter with Satan himself if it meant keepin’ you safe. You’re mine if you’ll say I’m yours, and I’m keepin’ you forever.”
