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1 " There’s a reason his voice sounds so heart-wrenchingly beautiful. When you slice yourself open and bleed into your music, every song contains a pulse that beats to the rhythm of your heart, and everyone listening can feel it. "
― Holly Hall , Love in Smoke
2 " Because for once, I wanted to be the one to pour gasoline on the fire and watch as it engulfed me. I wanted to be consumed by something that would leave no room for distractions. "
3 " If there's something that keeps you up at night and lights a fire in your soul, chase that thing. "
― Holly Hall , Somewhere Between Us
4 " How can you ever hate someone who once possessed a piece of your heart? A piece of you? "
5 " Reminiscing comes easy and forgetting becomes impossible when someone leaves you suspended mid-fall. "
6 " That's when I lost my faith in this town, in these people. They're friends until it counts. "
7 " Parched earth is always going to soak up what's given to it, whether it's nourishing or volatile. "
8 " How long has it been since I lost my voice because using it posed more problems than staying silent. "
9 " Grace came when your capacity to forgive was challenged and you offered it anyway. "
10 " I wanted you to be free to choose whatever path you wanted without keeping me in mind. "
11 " Autumn is the best time of year. Maybe the worst for being a single girl of twenty-six, but in every other way, it’s perfect. The best things come out of hiding this time of year: the rich colors of fall leaves, pumpkin flavored everything, dark lipstick, sweaters and boots, fires, and . . . Landon Farrar, apparently. "
― Holly Hall , Forever Grace
12 " I briefly think about how great of an idea it would be to release a cookbook featuring photos of shirtless men cooking the recipes. I would buy it. "
13 " But my edges were all spiky and barbed from past lies and deceit, and try as I might, I couldn’t quite fit into the stencil he’d created. My outlines were a little too rough for that smooth silhouette. "
14 " I was angry at him and he was angry at me. Angry that I couldn’t be the girl from his songs who just gives and gives until there’s nothing left to her of any substance. "
15 " Try as I might, I can’t justify getting caught up in controversy, whether it’s true or not. I can’t allow myself to be swallowed up again. There’s a chance I’d never find my way back out. "
16 " What kind of guy makes Brussels sprouts if he’s not trying to get laid? "
17 " In the past year, I’ve felt so much it’s like I’ve come crawling out on the other side of a storm, a refugee amongst devastation. There are things you don’t have to experience twice, and feeling all that is one of them. "
18 " I didn’t know how much those secrets weighed until I set them free. "
19 " We’re as close as we can get and yet, if you fused our skin, bound our cells and bones, I’m still not sure it would feel close enough. "
20 " I will not watch idly as something else I care about goes up in smoke. "
