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1 " I hurt myself by hurting you.” His face wore a look of compassion. I hated that look, because it reminded me that he was a good person, that he had tried over and over to apologize. He unwittingly brought out the part of me that I hated, and I projected that hate onto him, because it was easier to hate someone else than to hate myself. Tears poured out of my eyes. And he wrapped his arms around me, holding me as wept. And I hated that his arms still felt good. "
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn , Love's Remains (Where You'll Land #2)
2 " Maybe there are some people you can’t unlove no matter how hard you try. Maybe there are some people you stay connected to, because they’ve hurt you to your very core. You keep hoping that somehow the pain can be resolved if they finally do the right thing, but the right thing can never be done because it had to have been done in the past. "
3 " Maybe my fear wasn’t that he couldn’t sustain emotional intimacy, but that he could. Maybe the scariest relationships were the ones where both people wanted to be close. "
4 " You can’t make yourself love someone you don’t.”“And you can’t love someone if you don’t let them in. You have the potential for great love. I always felt that capacity within you. Don’t deprive yourself of the opportunity to experience something so beautiful with someone just because you’re holding onto a relationship that will never be. "
5 " Some people will never love you no matter how hard you try and some people will love you without you having to try at all. "
6 " In a world filled with envy and greed, we have dared to find love. We have dared to be vulnerable. And that is worth fighting for. "
7 " So often, we don’t see the beauty in ourselves. If we keep observing our reflection in the distorted mirrors of bad relationships, we start believing we are ugly and unlovable. And the flaws aren’t in how we look, but in whose eyes we’re seeing ourselves through. "
8 " I wanted to keep him there to hold me up, to rely on, to remind me that there were places we found in other people that were safer than any walls could keep us. "
9 " Love should be easy. Life is hard. Relationships are complicated. But the love, that’s the one thing we should be able to count on. "
10 " Relationships don't break you; they reveal you. "
11 " You will always be my first love. My first everything. No love will be like the one I had for you, but I think the loves that come afterward can be just as good and most of the time better, because we are better. I was jealous when you first started dating her, because I could tell she was different. I kept wondering what she had that I didn’t, but it wasn’t her that was different, it was you. "
12 " He kept asking me what was wrong that night and I kept responding, "Nothing."But it's all the nothings that silently strangle us and our relationships, isn't it? "
13 " I wanted to keep him there to hold me up, to rely on, to remind that there were places we found in other people that were safer than any walls could keep us. "
14 " Maybe we love people forever. Maybe some relationships were derailed by time and circumstance, but somewhere in the background there was a place where that love still existed, where you were still those two people in that time. "
