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“You’d fight beside him, not for him. Two separate things. If he asked you to put down the sword, you’d listen because your stake isn’t bone-deep, a reflex, an untrained instinct. You have a choice in it, and that is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone. You can control one, but you sure as hell can’t control the other.”
Love is the most expensive thing you’ll ever own. You pay for it with grief, tears, and a piece of your soul,
“Words matter to you, yet you throw the most important one around without understanding what it means.”
“The existence of a word proves that someone in the history of humanity felt the same way I did and gave it a name. It means we’re not alone. If there’s a word for what we're feeling, we’re never alone.”
It takes strength to want something and deny yourself the craving.
I realized how monumental it was for the girl who never used the word perfect to use it to describe me.
Why do humans leave so much to be desired?
Ya’aburnee is Arabic for you bury me. It is the hope that you will die before your one true love because you cannot bear to live without them.
