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61 " You can’t choose the road you take; you can only hope to avoid the potholes. "
― Cassia Leo , Black Box
62 " To go to sleep one night with your child nestled inside you and wake up the next with no evidence your child ever existed is like waking up in a nightmare that never ends. "
― Cassia Leo , Bring Me Home (Shattered Hearts, #4)
63 " Fate is death. No one escapes it. But if you stick around long enough, you might find someone to help you cheat fate for a while. And when you can’t cheat anymore, and fate finally catches up to you, maybe it won’t seem so scary with that someone by your side. "
64 " I love you with all my circuits. "
65 " I hate you,’ I begin. ‘I hate the way your lip curls up when you’re confused. It’s sickeningly adorable. I hate the way your arms are so fucking strong. It kind of scares me.’ He smiles and I take a deep breath, trying to keep from crying, but it’s so hard. ‘I hate that your smile makes me want to cry and I don’t know why. I hate that you know how to look so together on the outside when you’re screaming inside. I hate that you always know the right thing to say. I hate the way that I already know what you’re thinking just by the way you’re looking at me.’ He wipes the tears from my jaw and I close my eyes. ‘I hate that you saved me. But, most of all, I hate that you love me because now I love you and I don’t know how to make it stop. "
66 " Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity. "
67 " But, honestly, I hope you’ll tell me that I’m enough.”She smiles. “You’re more than enough. You’re my circuit breaker. "
68 " With every choice you risk the life you would have had. With every decision you lose it. "
― Cassia Leo , Relentless (Shattered Hearts, #2)
69 " not all stories have happy endings; but that doesn’t mean they’re not worth the read. "
70 " Basically, love and hate activate similar circuits in the brain, but hate also activates the circuits used for rational thought. Which means, when you hate my adorable lips, you're thinking quite clearly, unlike when you think of how I love you and you turn unto a pile of irrational mush. In other words, you love me with all your circuits. "
71 " But, if you think about it, being afraid isn’t such a bad thing. Because fear is a reminder that you still have something to lose. Something worth holding onto. "
72 " I love you. Nothing else can explain how crazy you make me. And I want you to stay with me, tonight, tomorrow, and … for as long as it takes to make this right, because I know everything seems completely fucked up right now. But it won’t always be that way. We’ll get it right, won’t we? "
― Cassia Leo , Abandon (Shattered Hearts, #5)
73 " Having a mental illness is like riding a really fast merry-go-round that never stops. There's no escape. You're stuck. But once in a while, you can give the operator some good drugs and he'll slow it down a little; just enough for you to see the trees and the normal people as they stroll by. But that ride operator needs to be supplied often. And sometimes, like any typical junkie, he's just plain unreliable. He stops showing up and you're spinning again. You can't see clearly. "
74 " You’re afraid of being vulnerable, physically and emotionally. You’re afraid of loving completely. Most of all, you’re afraid you’ll live your whole life without ever being truly happy because you don’t even know what it is that will make you happy. You’re afraid of not being passionate enough or brave enough to live. But you are. You are brave because not only did you go to the library with me today, you were the one who insisted we go. "
75 " You taste like a storm. "
76 " Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you’ll always be there. Sometimes words are enough. "
77 " Love is a strange concept. That the very sight of someone, the very mention of their name, can cause an intense chemical reaction inside you is crazy. "
― Cassia Leo , The Way We Fall (The Story of Us, #1)
78 " But it’s not really the love that I envy, it’s the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can’t not love you. "
79 " Hope.If I had to explain to someone what part of the human body carries the spirit I would say it is the same part that carries hope. You can't survive without hope. "
― Cassia Leo , Parallel Spirits (Carrier Spirits, #1)
80 " You can’t let your past define your future. Once you get that figured out, you begin to understand the joy of living in the present. And the present is full of tiny gifts that we can only see when we stop looking behind and ahead of us. Sometimes, these gifts land right at our feet. Sometimes, it’s our feet that carry us toward them, running at full-speed until our hearts nearly give out. Either way, never stop noticing them, and never stop wishing. "