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1 " Loving her is strange and confusing and damn risky. And if I had the chance I'd choose it all over again. "
― Autumn Doughton , The Bright Effect
2 " But I broke your heart,” she whispers. I shrug and kiss her again. “You break it, you buy it. "
3 " Maybe some things are fragile, but your heart is not one of them. It is invincible. "
4 " I don’t want to always look at things from a distance so that I can hold on to this idea that they’re so perfect and flawless. I want to be close enough to see the cracks and all of the dark spaces. And if it’s true that all of my tomorrows are really beginning right this minute, I know exactly how I want them to go. "
5 " Poetry and song lyrics might want us to believe that finding love is like uncovering buried treasure, but now I know the truth. There’s no joy or celebration in love. There are no happy endings. There is simply me and her and a crushing pain. What’s left after that? An entire life of mute should-haves and second-bests. "
6 " I think of sunrises and sunsets I haven’t lived through and of songs I haven’t yet heard, and of inside jokes and warm kisses and hot chocolates I still have to drink and the kaleidoscope of jangling late-night stars I want to see. In a small voice I confess, “I’m scared. "
7 " Maybe some things are fragile, but your heart is not one of them. It is invincible "
