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1 " I knew myself well enough to know I didn’t survive books. They tore me to shreds. I’d never met an inanimate object as talented at breaking hearts as a book. "
― Parker S. Huntington , Darling Venom
2 " Suicide is a war of two fears—fear of death and fear of the thing that pushes you toward it. The stronger side always wins. And if you lose, the penalty is death. "
3 " Adolescent love is the greatest pain of all. It teaches you the power other people have to destroy you. "
4 " She was broken. I was destroyed. This had disaster written all over it. "
5 " It was a promise I shouldn’t have made. One that defied the hardest lesson I’d ever learned. Love is expensive. Its currency is grief. And sometimes, it costs more than you can afford. "
6 " Pain is growth. Fear is risk. You can’t be happy if you’re not growing and taking risks. "
7 " I wish I had cancer. Or some other grand battle. Dementia, stroke, organ failure. If I lose those fights, I’m brave. But the thing I’m battling is my mind. And if I lose, they’ll just call me weak. "
8 " They say love is ten percent falling and ninety percent picking yourself back up. What they never tell you is how quick that ten percent passes and how long that ninety percent lasts. "
9 " I wasn’t concerned about your sex life because you were a patient,” he said casually. “I’m concerned about it because I want to fuck your brains out until you lose the ability to walk straight. Unfortunately for me. "
10 " She uncurled my fingers one by one and pressed my palm to my heart. “Hatred comes from here. When you hate someone, a piece of them is lodged in your heart. If you don’t let the hate go, you live with that person inside you forever. "
11 " Love is just being there for someone. It’s that simple. "
12 " you are breathing, and it is beautiful, and i am so grateful for that "
13 " She tasted like sweet venom. Warm and cottony and dreamlike. Deadly toxic. Gorgeously addictive. "
14 " Falling in love makes you feel immortal. Don’t you want that? "
15 " Because that was what we were, essentially. Authors of our own stories. "
16 " if we could just stay this way forever, maybe it wouldn't hurt to breathe "
17 " Don’t shrink yourself to help others grow. "
18 " i am infront of you, around you, in your head. and i'm here to stay "
19 " there was something perpetually tragic about us. even in moments of peace. we were two empty planets, bound by grief and a gravitational pull neither of us could deny. destined to collide and end in a fiery death. "
20 " It was the first moment I let myself admit I wanted to be fucked by Dr. Tatum Marchetti. Ruthlessly hard and mercilessly filthy. "
