“These shoes look like they're straight out of 'The Wizard of Oz,' but since I'm like the tornado that blew you into Oz, I guess you can wear Dorothy's red slippers. And if I'm gone and seem lost, maybe you can do a little click and I'll find my way home.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I’ve wrapped myself up in him, something that no woman should do with any man.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“–The Prince Charming myth is the other curse God created to punish Eve and every other woman for biting that stupid apple.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“Why did you come after me? Why did you bring me this?" I thrust my hand in his face showcasing our ring.
"Yeah, I brought it to you. You're my wife. Why the hell do you keep taking it off?”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“He’s the master of manipulation, the king of allure.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I was caught before I even knew I was being hunted,”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I have a lot of confusion about his love for me, but what I have never been confused about is my love for him. I love Cal. That’s it. There’s been nothing I’ve been able to do to stop loving him yet. No matter how angry or how frustrated I get. He knows the exact moment, to do the exact thing to make me fall in love with him all over again.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“He’s thinking, which is always a good sign.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“A guy is supposed to put you on cloud nine and help you forget about your problems.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“That longing feeling of missing him so much that I felt a part of me was missing, gone. That part of me would be returned in pieces, but not quite broken.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“Love and hate crashing together in a never-ending battle that I fought within myself.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I have to let go. I have to let him go and believe that the future can take the place of my past.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“The bags around my eyes can carry groceries. I look like I haven’t slept in days. I”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I don’t want to be a part of your past. I want to be the only person to touch you in ways that give you chills, to whisper things that make you turn red. I know there are a lot of things that you want to know about me that I haven’t been exactly open with you about. But know that I love you; I’ve been in love with you longer than I’ve admitted to myself.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“care about and what’s important to me.” “Lauren, that’s not true. If it were, when Angie called”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“The four-carat yellow diamond on my finger is a beautiful but painful reminder of the vows he broke. I”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I expected his lack of response, but it hurts all the same. I’m pretty sure he regards me more as his personal high-class escort than his wife. I”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“The loneliest time of my life didn’t begin until I married the one person I would have given my life for.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“Nothing is certain now. The bond between us, once so real—so tangible, I believed in it with every ounce of my being—is now in tatters. Whatever we had has been lost, our home void of warmth and love and filled with anger instead. We are participants in a war of words that continues to be recycled over and over again.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“I hate the fact that I still get chills when he touches me. I wish I would cringe instead. I hate it even more that he knows the effect he has on me.”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
“He lifts me up and carries me inside to our bed. This is what he does, after all. He’s the master of manipulation, the king of allure. He knows me inside and out—”
― Portia Moore, quote from If I Break
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“Exposing a young child to the realities of love and death is far less dangerous than exposing them to the lie of the happy ending.”
― Caitlin Doughty, quote from Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
“My intruder leaned into the dim light, revealing a face both beautiful and terrifying. He wasn’t human. No, he was far too perfect and mystical for that. Markings, resembling tattoos, flashed with jeweled colors beneath his dark, fathomless eyes. His blue hair swayed, out of sync with the wind gushing through my window.”
― A.G. Howard, quote from Untamed
“The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown in their own reflections.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from Nine Coaches Waiting
“The point of self-reflection is, foremost, to clarify and to find honesty. Self-reflection is the way to throw self-lies out and face the truth—however painful it might be to admit that you were wrong. We seek consistency in ourselves, and so when we are faced with inconsistency, we struggle to deny. Denial has no place in self-reflection, and so it is incumbent upon a person to admit his errors, to embrace them and to move along in a more positive direction. We can fool ourselves for all sorts of reasons. Mostly for the sake of our ego, of course, but sometimes, I now understand, because we are afraid. For sometimes we are afraid to hope, because hope breeds expectation, and expectation can lead to disappointment. And”
― R.A. Salvatore, quote from Road of the Patriarch
“Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from The Farming of Bones
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