Heart-Shaped Bruise Quotes

“It was like this blackness that crept into the corners of my life until everything was grey and dirty. My insides felt burnt out, like if you cut me open, all you would find would be smoke. No heart. No bones. There was nothing left, just the anger. It followed me everywhere. It sat on my bed and watched me sleep and when I had to eat, it looked at me across the table.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“All my life, all I'd ever heard was: Emily's so shy, Emily's so quiet, Emily's so clever. Thinking back on it now, I don't know if I was ever any of those things, or if I just became shy and quiet and clever because everyone said I was.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“I don’t know if that’s ever happened to you, if you’ve loved someone, loved who they are, then found out they’re not that person after all. It doesn’t just break your heart, does it? It breaks you. Then you’re not who you thought you were, either.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“We all know what we had, don’t we? We just never thought we could lose it.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“Why do you hate her, Emily?"
"For reminding me that I did this to myself.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“China shop rules, Juliet: you break it, you pay for it, and you broke me. You got what you deserved.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“Doctor Gilyard was right, Juliet and I do have a lot in common. She lost her mother, I lost my mother. She lost her father, I lost my father. She had to start again, I had to start again. She had to pretend to be someone else, I had to pretend to be someone else. But where she was better for it, I was worse. Where she used what happened to make her stronger, I held on to it. I let it distil into something filthy and black. And I hated her for that.
Hated her.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“That fucking notebook. I’m going to set fire to it.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“I did that a lot then, too, steal other people’s memories and pass them off as my own. I still get them mixed up sometimes. I’ll think of something—like that picture of Audrey Hepburn—and smile. Then I’ll remember that it isn’t my memory to smile about.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“There’s something about Doctor Gilyard, about this tiny white room, that distorts things. I say things to her sometimes, things that make sense, things that have always made sense, but when I hear myself say them, they sound weird.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“But I can’t talk to her because she’s going through hell and she doesn’t need to hear me ranting about a vase. But that happens sometimes, Rose, you want to talk about stuff but you can’t because your friends are going through things—real things, painful things—and you can’t talk to them because your stuff doesn’t feel as important as theirs.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“I don’t know if this ever happened to you, if you’ve loved someone, loved who they are, then found out they’re not that person after all. It doesn’t just break your heart, does it? It breaks you. Then you’re not who you thought you were, either.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“The things we reach for when we’re trying to avoid a talking about something else sometimes mean as much.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“That’s what you won’t find on Google,” I wanted to tell Doctor Gilyard today. “Who I used to be.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“Home isn't where you live,' I said, 'but where you're understood.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“When I go, I want to punch a hole in the sky.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“If this was a television show, Val would have reached for my hand and said something profound to help me find my way back. But she didn’t. How could she? She’s out there with me.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“But I can't talk to her because she's going through hell and she doesn't need to hear me ranting about a vase. But that happens sometimes, Rose, you want to talk about stuff but you can't because your friends are going through things--real things, painful things-- and you can't talk to them because your stuff doesn't feel as important as theirs.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“Hast du jemals so jemanden kennengelernt? jemanden,der so gut ist -nicht perfekt ,sondern gut -das man sich daneben wie Abfall fühlt”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise