If you ever unlove me, have the guts to tell it to my face. Otherwise you are a coward.
Grabbing the amber rosary Rumi had left behind, I thanked God over and over again for giving me a true companion and prayed that his beautiful soul would never sober up from the drunkenness of Divine Love.
— Anne Sexton, Elegy in the Classroom
You were holding my heart in the palms of your hand. You could have been gentle yet you decided to crush it.
The feeling when they behave in the most childish way in front of you and no one else.
It's like they are opening their inner child to only you <3
Losing someone close to you is such a crippling feeling.
“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.”
— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
I love you, Dexter, so much.
I just don't like you anymore.
—One Day
Shams smiled fleetingly. “Every man has a degree of womanliness inside.”
“Even the ones who are manly men?”
“Especially those, my dear,” Shams said, garnishing his words with a wink and dropping his voice to a whisper, as if sharing a secret.
—The Forty Rules of Love
He was a man of black and white.
And she was colour. All the colour he had.
A man called Ove, Fredrick Backman
"I sense that I am slowly letting go. That I'm growing less in love with you every single day. I think that's the most difficult thing about losing someone you've loved, the way you feel never really dies all at once. All you can do is wait and watch it fade away one day at a time."
- Beau Taplin