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“Working on yourself is one of the hardest things anyone can do. It causes you to have to dig in, reopen wounds for close inspection. It's excruciating, like rebreaking bones to make sure they heal properly.”
― Sloan Harlow, Everything We Never Said

“I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears;”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Fortunately I have a son, my beautiful boy
Unfortunately he is a drug addict.
Fortunately he is in recovery.
Unfortunately he relapses.
Fortunately he is in recovery again.
Unfortunately he relapses.
Fortunately he is not dead.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“It is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You fucked me over," I started, bleeding into the pain I felt for months. "You fucked me up. And yet, you come back every time. Why? Why do you insist on doing this to me?" His response may have been the most honest thing he's ever said, and that terrified me. In one breath, he shattered my soul. "You let me." I don't think he realized the impact of his words until I'd walked away, refusing to turn back, refusing to ever speak to him again. You let me.”
― Marie-France Léger, A Hue of Blu

“He never did anything with me as the primary focus. I was never a priority, never first. I satisfied him, but I was never enough to fulfill him.”
― Marie-France Léger, A Hue of Blu

“​Men didn’t respond to desperation. They responded to silence.”
― Marie-France Léger, A Hue of Blu

“I live; I die; the sea comes over me; it’s the blue that lasts.” Virginia Woolf”
― Marie-France Léger, A Hue of Blu

“You’ve been avoiding your feelings for too long. It’s time you embrace them, embrace that they are a part of you and they’re not trying to cause you harm. You are capable of healing,” she urged, “And you are owed it.”
― Marie-France Léger, A Hue of Blu

“But as I stared at the beautiful man I'd come to know, I realized I never really did. he never really showed me. And it wouldn't be possible for us.
We were never made to last.”
― Marie-France Léger, A Hue of Blu

“​He sucked the life out of me. ​He drained me of all my energy. ​He would do it again if I let him. ​If I let him.”
― Marie-France Léger, A Hue of Blu

“Maybe I was his rainy day.
And that hurt.
That really fucking hurt.
Because where I carried clouds and wind and precipitation, he carried the sun, the stars and the sky.
Yeah, that's what he was.
My sun.
And I was his rain.
I was his fucking rain.”
― Marie-France Léger, A Hue of Blu