“The heart is a weapon—a self-inflicting weapon—that if not trained properly, can destroy a person.”
“But maybe people like me aren't supposed to be saved. Maybe I'm just destined to bear the weight of the demons that lurk among the good.”
“And that's the moment when you realize that hopes and dreams are as fucked up as fairytales.”
“They say when you take revenge against another you lose your innocence.”
“I’ve never come across anyone like him. His intensity is entirely consuming, and when I’m not with him, all I can think about are ways I can sneak around to get to him. It’s like he’s the oxygen I need to survive, and when he’s gone I’m suffocating. I don’t know if love is supposed to feel this way, but it’s all I know, and it’s all with him.”
“Whether or not you’re in politics, everything is political. We all save face for others to perceive us in the best light. Nothing is real until you break down the walls and reveal the ugliness.”
“How you feel is how you allow yourself to feel.”
“Because life is not a fairytale, but we all need that one person who keeps the dream alive. You are that person for me.”
“That's the moment I realized hopes and dreams are as fucked up as fairytales”
“Weakness derives from the soul. Most everyone has one, which gives a woman like me leverage. Leverage to play people to my liking, and so I do.”
“There’s something about a beautiful, nearly flawless flower, emerging from muddled water.”
“His eyes are sharp as he says this, the intensity prevalent,”
“Soon the happiness will be enough to weaken the control the past has on you, and it won’t hurt as badly as it does right now.” “But”
“not to lose it. My thoughts rake at my heart, pricking tears that begin to puddle in my eyes.”
“That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.”
“The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.”
“–Todos los hombres son esclavos. Ellos lo han querido así. Solo Dios puede liberarlos. Él, que les dio la libertad en el nacimiento, aunque ellos hayan renunciado siempre a ella y siempre renuncien.”
“هذه الحياة السيئة تحيلك إلى وحش كاسر”
“There was another pause and then Bastien clucked and snapped, "Dammit, Thomas! Inez is one of my best employees."
He pulled the phone away from his ear to peer at it with disbelief, and then slapped it back to his head. "What the hell has that got to do with anything?"
"Well, if you had to find your lifemate, couldn't it have been someone else's employee. I'm going to lose her now. She'll want to be with you and come to Canada and--”
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