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  • #1
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You have my whole heart. You always did.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #2
    Cormac McCarthy
    “How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #3
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #4
    Charles Bukowski
    “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
    Charles Bukowski, Post Office

  • #5
    Sylvia Plath
    “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #6
    Tennessee Williams
    “Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
    Tennessee Williams, Memoirs

  • #7
    Tennessee Williams
    “I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places”
    Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

  • #8
    Frederick Buechner
    “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
    Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

  • #9
    Stephanie Perkins
    “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
    Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

  • #10
    Bret Easton Ellis
    “I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)”
    Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

  • #11
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #12
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #13
    Charles Bukowski
    “A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
    Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

  • #14
    Charles Bukowski
    “there is a place in the heart that
    will never be filled

    a space

    and even during the
    best moments
    and
    the greatest times
    times

    we will know it

    we will know it
    more than
    ever

    there is a place in the heart that
    will never be filled
    and

    we will wait
    and
    wait

    in that space.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #15
    Charles Bukowski
    “nothing can save
    you
    except
    writing.
    it keeps the walls
    from
    failing.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #16
    Charles Bukowski
    “Find what you love and let it kill you.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #17
    Charles Bukowski
    “Lighting new cigarettes,
    pouring more
    drinks.

    It has been a beautiful
    fight.

    Still
    is.”
    Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

  • #18
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #19
    Ian McEwan
    “When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
    Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

  • #20
    Kate Chisman
    “You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart."
    - Adieu”
    Kate Chisman

  • #21
    Kate Chisman
    “You wanted a wife but I was
    still a girl.”
    Kate Chisman

  • #22
    Kate Chisman
    “In the morning, that moment, when I knew it was you. When I could feel you breathing and we opened our eyes at the exact same time.”
    Kate Chisman

  • #23
    Kate Chisman
    “Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them... You were someone to me.”
    Kate Chisman

  • #24
    Kate Chisman
    “I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.‘For the big job,’ you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I’d never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would never be the one that you came home to.”
    Kate Chisman

  • #25
    Kate Chisman
    “We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.”
    Kate Chisman, Run

  • #26
    Kate Chisman
    “In the dark behind the glare of the television, like a mannequin behind it, I could see a silhouette and it wasn’t moving. It was maybe six foot high with its shoulders hunched and I blinked to make sure it was real. The TV fuzzed grey and white and black and I had a lump in my throat that I couldn’t swallow away. “Rory” I whispered. Clawing out gently beneath the duvet cover, reaching for his hand. But I couldn’t find it. And he didn’t answer.”
    Kate Chisman, Creep

  • #27
    Kate Chisman
    “The scratching came from the attic. At night, when Rory turned out the light I would lie awake and wait for it to skit, skit, skit lightly across the floorboards above our heads and down behind the water pipes.”
    Kate Chisman, Creep

  • #28
    Kate Chisman
    “The chandelier was wearing on its rubber support and the crack at the side of the ceiling hold was getting bigger. “One day that’s going to fall on us and spear you through the heart,” he said. I turned to kiss him on the shoulder and closed my eyes.”
    Kate Chisman, Creep

  • #29
    Kate Chisman
    “He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn’t done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.”
    Kate Chisman, Creep

  • #30
    Kate Chisman
    “The diamonds glinted under the glare of the chandelier and they looked like a thousand spider eyes”
    Kate Chisman, Creep



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