“You might not realize it now, kid, but everyone is some shade of fucked-up.”
― Riley Hart, quote from Broken Pieces
“There aren’t laws for emotions, Tristan. There isn’t a magical timeframe where it’s okay to fall in love with someone or okay to fall out of it. Emotions don’t play by rules. That’s what makes them so incredible.”
― Riley Hart, quote from Broken Pieces
“You always make me get so fuckin’ emotional. I’d get my ass beat if anyone saw me the way I am with you.”
― Riley Hart, quote from Broken Pieces
“Nothing in this world was completely black or white. Wrong or right. Or if it was, what mattered was whose eyes it was being seen from.”
― Riley Hart, quote from Broken Pieces
“He looked up as Tristan reached him. No doubt he had tears mixed with the rain sliding down his face. “It’s my birthday,” he whispered. “That’s when he gave me the queen. He said it’s because I was the strongest person he knew.”
― Riley Hart, quote from Broken Pieces
“And then he cocked his head a little bit. A slight smile tugged at Tristan’s lips. “You talked to her. This was the first day of college you missed, and it was because you spoke with her all day on the phone.”
― Riley Hart, quote from Broken Pieces
“Emotions don't play by rules. That's what makes them so incredible.”
― Riley Hart, quote from Broken Pieces
“Where are we going?” Josiah shook as he spoke. “Home.”
― Riley Hart, quote from Broken Pieces
“All he knew was all those empty rooms inside him were somehow filled when Mateo was around.”
― Riley Hart, quote from Broken Pieces
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“Stop it,” I said. “Just stop it!” I knew I was starting to cry and I was so sick, sick, sick to death of all those sad damned tears I had inside me. How could I have so many tears living there, in my body? How could they fit? When was it going to stop? When?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, quote from Last Night I Sang to the Monster
“Should that be enough for her? Was she wrong to want passion? To dream of something—someone—more? She’d always imagined love to be turbulent and volatile, an emotion that would sweep her up and break her to pieces and reshape her into someone she couldn’t otherwise have become.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from True Colors
“The human heart, no matter what age, will only open to the heart that opens in return.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Apothecary's Daughter
“You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“So now, I look at these stories, and almost like a photograph snapped at a party, I find all manner of signs and indications of who I was. Was? Yes, was. I look at these pieces and I don't think the man who wrote them is alive in me anymore. Writing an introduction to the tenth anniversary edition of Weaveworld last year I remarked on much of the same thing: the man who'd written that book was no longer around. He'd died in me, was buried in me. We are our own graveyards; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we're neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three
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