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The sting of loss, I’ve heard it called. I haven’t had anything or anyone to cherish, never felt the need to have someone, to make them completely mine, I haven’t wanted to hold on to someone so fiercely.
I won the bet, but I lost the only thing that has ever made me happy. And along with that, I lost every ounce of goodness she made me see in myself.
I can’t think of anything that’s going to calm the ache inside of me. It feels infinite. Permanent. Like an organism that’s come to live within me, but also like a hole growing steadily larger.
I want to be my own stability and security. I want someone to love, and someone to love me.
“I can’t believe how stupid I was—I gave up everything for him. But the worst feeling in the world is loving someone who doesn’t love you.”
“I can’t do this anymore. I trusted you. Hardin, I trusted you with every fiber of my being—I depended on you, I loved you, and you were using me all along. Do you have any idea how that makes me feel? That everyone around me was mocking me and laughing behind my back, including you, the person I trusted the most.”
She could make me the happiest man on earth, or she could crush me with one word.
“The best thing about reading is to escape from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives.
“I would like to think that every novel I’ve read has became a part of me, created who I am, in a sense.”
No matter how hard I fight it, I need him. I need to be close to him, I need him to comfort me, to challenge me, to annoy me, to kiss me, and to love me.
love how emotionally invested she becomes in things. She opens herself so fully to these fictional forces, whether in a movie or a novel, that she allows them to completely pull her in. It’s captivating to watch.
I want to touch every part of her body, every inch of skin, every curve, every angle. God, she is beautiful.
It’s dark meets light; it’s chaotic perfection; it’s everything I fear, want, and need.
This is me now. I love you! I will do anything for you, for you to see that this is me, the man who loves you more than breathing, the man who dances at weddings and watches you sleep, the man whose day can’t start until you kiss me, the man who would rather die than be without you. That’s me, that’s who I am. Please don’t let this ruin us.
back. Is love always like this? Is it always so passionate, yet so damn painful?
“He stepped down, trying not to look long
at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
Sometimes it is better to be kept in the dark than to be blinded by
the light.
do you yourself have faith in some higher power? Do you feel that faith can bring good things into people’s lives? Maybe you think of faith in a completely different way altogether—does having faith in something or someone change the outcome of a situation? If you have faith that your unfaithful lover will stop being unfaithful, does that make a difference at all? Does having faith in God… or a number of gods, make you any better of a person than someone who doesn’t? Take the topic of faith and do what you want with it… just do something,”
This isn’t the pain I had read about in novels. This pain isn’t just in my mind, this pain isn’t physical. This is a soul-aching pain, something
that is ripping me apart from the inside out, and I don’t think I can survive it. No one could.
He doesn’t want me, but he doesn’t want me to be with anyone else either.
“Just because he can’t love you the way you want him to doesn’t mean he doesn’t love you with everything he has,”
I know that no matter how much we fight, we will always find a way back to each other. Always.
“You deserve that type of attention. You deserve to be with someone who makes you glow, not who burns out your light.”
was raised better than to let a man dictate my future, no matter how deep my love for him is.
Most of the novels that I’ve read led me to believe quarrels come and go in the blink of an eye, a simple apology will bandage any problem and everything will be worked out within minutes. The novels lie. Maybe that’s why I’m so enamored with Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice; both
are incredibly romantic in their own way, but they reveal the truth behind blind love and promises of forever.
This is the truth. This is a world where everyone makes mistakes, even the incredibly naïve girl who is usually the victim of a boy’s insensitivity and temper. No one is truly innocent in this world, no one. The people who...
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I love him a thousand times more than I lust for him, but the two mix and intensify
I don’t want her to see what’s inside.
Why?foreshadowing?
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all
human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
“Angry people are not always wise.”
“I have not the pleasure of unders...
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“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step toward falling in love.”
“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
‘There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.’
‘And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.’ “ ‘And yours,’ he replied with a smile, ‘is willfully to misunderstand them.’ ”
“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”
“You have bewitched me, body and soul.”
“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them forever.”
“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony.”
