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1 " The most important time to listen is when words are missing, that’s when hearts cry out the loudest. "
― Kim Holden , The Other Side
2 " People aren’t perfect. It’s not about loving them when it’s easy and convenient; it’s about loving them even more when it’s hard. "
3 " Sadness is melancholy. Depression is a black hole of despair. I always imagine it’s like drowning. There are short bursts of fresh air, like Alice, but the past, the hopelessness, the guilt, and self-loathing is a pair of lead shoes that always pull me back under. "
4 " Guilt and me, we’re conjoined. One. When it isn’t stabbing me, I drag it around like a ball and chain. "
5 " A kiss should feel like you’ve been plunged into an abyss that you may never surface from, or it isn’t worth doing. "
6 " He made some mistakes when he was younger and he paid the price. When people learn from their mistakes it matures them; when they don’t, they stagnate. "
7 " The past clings to her and clouds her mind so completely that it governs her present and foretells her future. "
8 " Every kiss eventually ends. The memory of them doesn’t. I’ll still feel that one when I’m ninety, "
9 " Lucky for me, good guys disguised as assholes are my favorite, "
10 " Saying, “I’m sorry,” to someone, when they’re the one who should be saying it to her instead, is a lifelong, chronic problem. Taking the blame for everything is a by-product of insecurity and a sense of worthlessness "
11 " It's not about living them when it's easy and convenient; it's about loving them even more when it's hard. "
12 " Mouths can lie, but eyes can’t. "
13 " Inquisitive, quietly observing and sifting through people’s actions and words to decide if what someone projected on the outside matched who they were on the inside. It’s unnerving how perceptive he is. "
