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81 " realized, with depressing clarity, that she wasn’t the venom at all. She was the antidote. But the quantities were all off. "
― Parker S. Huntington , Darling Venom
82 " Hiraeth is a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was. It is the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past. I’ve always thought of it as the saddest entry in the dictionary. "
― Parker S. Huntington , Devious Lies (Cruel Crown, #1)
83 " A morsel of what I wanted to happen flashed behind my lids. Us. Tangled in the jungle gym. Screwing on the swings. Him, eating me out on the slide. I needed to run straight to my room, do fifty Hail Marys, and bathe in holy water. This was the playground I brought Jonah’s daughter to once a week. I’d never be able to play with Rowling there again. "
84 " My pinky brushed his. I stuck it out, letting it drag along his skin before retreating. His bumped mine. Was it sad that I considered this foreplay? "
85 " Love is the most expensive thing you'll ever own. You pay for it with grief, tears, and a piece of your soul, but in return, you receive happiness, memories, and life. "
86 " Sometimes, you have to forgive people if you still want them in your life. "
― Parker S. Huntington , Bastiano Romano (The Five Syndicates, #3)
87 " Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. Bruce Lee "
― Parker S. Huntington , Asher Black (The Five Syndicates, #1)
88 " That was the thing about despair. It built up like a Jenga tower. Higher and higher, on shaky ground. One bad move, and you were toast. "
89 " This is not the beginning of something,” Kellan warned. “If anything, it’s the end. "
90 " Who gives a fuck about your first love? Give a big round of applause for your second love, because they taught you love still exists after you thought it never could again. — That One Pinterest Pin "
― Parker S. Huntington , Damiano De Luca (The Five Syndicates #4)
91 " Dementia, stroke, organ failure. If I lose those fights, I’m brave. But the thing I’m battling is my mind. And if I lose, they’ll just call me weak. "
92 " Who are we to defy the universe? "
93 " querencia. "
94 " More importantly—she was finally coming to terms with the cover she’d been dealt with in life and remembering what the most important part of the book was. The spine. "
95 " Finifugal originates from the Latin word fuga, for flight. It shows us that endings are fleeting. We may hate them. We may fear them. We may avoid them. But we don’t need to. Like sunsets, endings can be beautiful. The next morning, the sun always rises again, because there is no such thing as an ending, just a new beginning. "
96 " If you want to be better, do it because it makes you happy. Not because you think it will make someone else happy or because you feel like you have to. "
97 " You're breathing, Charlie. You are breathing, and it is beautiful, and I am so grateful for that. "
98 " Sometimes, I don’t recognize you, Nash. Doesn’t that scare you? "
99 " It is the hope that you will die before your one true love because you cannot bear to live without them. "
100 " Ya’aburnee "