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1 " You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something equally logical, but it didn't feel like anything logical "
― C.K. Kelly Martin , I Know It's Over
2 " Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen. "
3 " What the fuck does he think he's doing anyway? And when has running around in a figure eight ever helped anyone? "
― C.K. Kelly Martin
4 " I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave? "
― C.K. Kelly Martin , My Beating Teenage Heart
5 " Love does strange things to you sometimes. It can twist you into saying and doing things that you know you’ll regret and still, you do them. "
6 " How many times can a person break you heart? "
7 " Things don't always change with a bang. Sometimes they change so gradually that you can't clearly pinpoint the last moment they were truly the same. "
― C.K. Kelly Martin , One Lonely Degree
8 " In two years you can love somebody with all your heart and lose them. You can become the very best of friends with someone and then neglect them to the point that they don't expect anything different from you anymore. You can become someone you never expected and forget things you believed you could take for granted about yourself. "
― C.K. Kelly Martin , Come See About Me
9 " Sometimes it seems so easy to make people happy that I wonder why I don't do it more often. "
10 " Bending instead of breaking,” he repeats. “That’s probably always a better option if you can take it, isn’t it? "
11 " Maybe no one person should be that important that their absence drains life of meaning, but he was. Day after day and the loss didnt get any lighter. "
12 " A thought is just a thought until you own up to it and give it depth and weight. "
13 " There´s no cure for that kind of missing, but I keep walking... "
14 " But you can't unsee something once you've seen it. Not without a memory wipe anyway. "
― C.K. Kelly Martin , Yesterday (Yesterday #1)
15 " It´s amazing how quickly life can take things from you-and astounding the swiftness with which its gifts arrive too. "
16 " Love is real and real love lasts. I used to feel sorry for people who didn't believe in it--the people who were lonely with someone else or lonely along. For awhile I was was one of the lucky ones. "
17 " I wanted to tell his dad that Nathan was fine the way he was and that he was the one that needed to change. It made me glad to have my parents. If I told my dad I was gay, he'd probably just look scared and hand over more safe sex money." -Nick Severson "
18 " In my opinion, we didn't have to aspire to greatness. We were already there. "
19 " There's a cultural level of acceptable grief that I'm on the wrong side of. "
20 " Then, once he was gone, Bastian took up more of my energy and time than he ever had when he'd been alive. "
