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“Drop the pack, just let go”
― Penelope Douglas

“Craving that fucking escape so badly because someone else left you empty?”
― Penelope Douglas

“I look down at Tiernan, her body taking everything I’m giving, and I swear I want to swallow her whole. I’d forgotten what it felt like. To actually want to make someone happy”
― Penelope Douglas

“Why was this so hard for my parents? It wasn’t unnatural for me to want this from them. To want to share my life with people who love me. To laugh and cry and make memories together. Because life is only happy when it’s shared”
― Penelope Douglas

“Deep. I always want to be there. I hate it here, I want to be there. In the valley, where the river creeps and the wind rushes me. Surrounded by the creaks. It smells like deep. Tastes like deep. I want the world to be smaller. I hate it here”
― Penelope Douglas

“Saw her smile again today. She turned her face toward the sky and closed her eyes. I kind of get it. Like I don't need to fucking talk all the time, she doesn't need to open her eyes to see the peak. She likes it here. I can tell by her smile when she doesn't know anyone sees her.”
― Penelope Douglas

“God, she feels good. She looks like she'd be pudding in your fist. Soft. Too soft. It was so good, though. Those seconds on the car that she let me bury my face in her body. Her skin is like water. I want her smell in my bed. And in my hair. And never far away from me.”
― Penelope Douglas

“I come in every night.
You tuck your cold feet between my legs, and I hug you to me, resting my hand on your back and feeling your body calm as it nestles into me. Do I make you feel safe? I like taking care of you.”
― Penelope Douglas

“You make me shake. My hands shook at the tree with you today, and I don't understand what it is or why it's happen-ing. I just feel it. I never want you to walk too far away from me.”
― Penelope Douglas

“It's hard to imagine two women more different than Kathy and Alicia. Kathy makes me think of light, warmth, color, and laughter. When I think of Alicia, I think only of depth, of darkness, of sadness.

Of silence.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“I didn't need anyone now I had him. He saved me-like Jesus. Maybe that's what the painting is about. Gabriel is my whole world and has been since the day we met. I'll love him no matter what he does, or what happens- no matter how much he upsets me-no matter how untidy or messy he is how thoughtless, how selfish. I'll take him just as he is.
Until death do us part.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“But it is impossible for someone who was not abused to become an abuser. No one is born evil. As Winnicott put it, "A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby." As babies, we are innocent sponges, blank slates, with only the most basic needs present: to eat, shit, love, and be loved. But something goes wrong, depending on the circumstances into which we are born,”
― Alex Michaelides

“It's a shame you didn't know her then.
She was the most interesting person I've ever met. Most people aren't alive, you know, not really sleepwalking their way through life. But Alicia was so intensely alive.... It was hard to take your eyes off her." Jean-Felix turned his head back to the painting and gazed at Alicia's naked body. "So beautiful.”
― Alex Michaelides

“Never shall I forget these things, even if I’m condemned to live as long as God himself”
― Elie Wiesel

“As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Sometimes just to say you’re truth out loud is enough to find others like you”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“She wasn’t a black hole, she decided she was a volcano. And like a volcano, she couldn’t run away from her self. She’d have to stay there in 10 to that wasteland. She could plan a forest inside of herself”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Think it’s time to figure out who I was meant to become before I started living my life for everyone else”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“now that I’ve had this side of him, I don’t know how I can go on without it”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“please don’t allow anyone to make you feel less than what you are”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“there’s just something about her the type of high my mind craves. She is the feeling of late night after hours on Fridays. She’s my good time girl whenever I’m stressed out she she helps me cope, like an actor doing lines. She’s always been my Coke.”
― R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel I

“encourage her to be the type of woman that sounds weak man running the other way”
― R.H. Sin, WHISKEY WORDS & A SHOVEL II

“This was my first time buying weed in a legal setting and when you’re me that something you never forget it’s a fucking dream come true. The normalization of something you’ve been told your whole life is highly illicit was oddly validating.”
― Seth Rogen, Yearbook

“But even though I felt like a snake. I didn’t plan on slithering away. I liked your energy so much I planned to coil myself around you and never let go”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“how many losses can one person take before they just throw in the fucking towel? Because it sure is starting to feel like I’m all out of wins.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him