“The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“How can you still love me after everything I’ve done to you?” “How can I not? You’re the fucking love of my life. You don’t stop loving someone just because they’ve hurt you. Yes, what you did hurt me, but I gain nothing if I stay angry with you. But I might gain everything by forgiving you. You’re my everything. I just want you back.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“You’re my mess, and that makes you a beautiful mess,”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“You’re mine, and a piece of you will always belong to me the same way a piece of me will always belong to you.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“Why? Why do you have to leave?” “Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“Are you okay?” he whispers as he kisses my neck and I nod hastily. “Good ‘cause I’m about to wreck you.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“Most people think that they want spacious homes, but they don’t realize how the emptiness of a large room just amplifies the emptiness in a broken heart. And we’re all broken, in one way or another.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“I’m going to take my time and you’re going to like it.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“You don't stop loving someone just because they've hurt you.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“You may not be mine anymore, but I'm still lucky to have you in my life.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“It's funny that when the one person you live for is ripped out of your life you can still find a way to convince yourself it's for the best and that you will eventually get over it.
What a joke.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“Most people think that they want spacious homes, but they don't realize how the emptiness of a large room just amplifies the emptiness in a broken heart.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“No one knows how to love me like you and no one knows how to hurt me like you.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“sometimes being alone is more desirable than being in a roomful of people who aren’t there.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.”
― David Levithan, quote from Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
“You act as though love is a goal you only achieve after so long spent working at it. And yes, work is involved, but at the end of it all, love is a choice—the kind you have with a spouse, with your people, with yourself. If you acted on those things only when you felt them, you’d be like most people—eternally waiting for a feeling that may or may not come. But if you choose, every day, to love yourself”
― Sara Raasch, quote from Frost Like Night
“The diary ended unfinished, unseen by any who deserved to read it.
Only Elara saw its pages, and the slow unraveling of the woman inside.
She destroyed the book like she destroyed Coriane.
Still she dreamed of nothing.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Cruel Crown
“-I'm your girlfriend?
- "No." Alexei shakes his head, then pulls me to him again, holds me closer. "There's not a word in either of our language for what you are to me".”
― Ally Carter, quote from Take the Key and Lock Her Up
“People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration. ”
― Susan Sontag, quote from Regarding the Pain of Others
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