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"Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines."
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"They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul."

"I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem."

"And she called him a stranger. Whose name still echoed in her mind like a war cry. Who had seen each bit of her naked soul and knew how scarred her soul is. Whose reflection still stood, smiling at her every time she stood in front of the mirror."

"Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air. Sometimes people stop loving you. And that's the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light."

"I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart."

"In the middle of the mayhem, you came and sang a song of melancholy. You promised a wildfire, but instead choked the light that was struggling hard for survival. Eventually when all the light went off. You left, complaining about the darkness."

"Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back."

"I got desire to be alive when i got believe in your embrace i will die.Believe had Broken and desire Lost."

"Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye."

"I stood in your doorway this morningdreaming you'd turn aroundyou'd tilt your headyou'd softly whisper stayor that you'd grab my armsto shake me while askingwhat the hell are we doingwe loveeach otherand this is not rightso we will make this worknow stay!You poured your coffee. Stirred the spoon like a crystal manwith your back to me and not a sound. the fridge humming elegies while the clock ticked onand the streets are so clean here people rushing to workand maybe I should be tooby nowat this agethis stagethis town.I will stand in that doorway dreamingfor many nights to come."
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"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

"Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut."

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"It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it."

"She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong."
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