““Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
— Anaïs Nin
“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
—
Holly Black
@sunandwhiskey
“I wonder how you’re supposed to know the exact moment when there’s no more hope.”
— Sara Zarr
“A person doesn’t know true hurt and suffering until they’ve felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”
—
Rose Gordon
“You did not break me – I am not that easily broken. You awoke me with so much force, the shock to my system reset my internal clock and I found myself no longer counting down the hours and minutes so the day could end – every second was new, it had purpose and so did I.”
— James McInerney (Instagram : millsmc07)
@sunandwhiskey
“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
— Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere | @theliteraryjournals