heart shaped bruises

“Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.”

                                                                                                 - Neil Gaiman

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"“Why is love intensified by absence?”"

- Audrey Niffenegger

I think the mistake is that people commit to who that person is right then and not the person they’re going to become. That’s the art of staying together, changing together.

                                                                                — Justin Timberlake

You were unsure which pain is worse — the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy

“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?

                                                                                  — Charles Bukowski

 

When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It’s because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn’t fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.
- John Green

“Everything is where he left it that morning. If I keep it that way it will be like he never left. His cellphone hasn’t even been disconnected. If I keep calling him, if I leave everything as it was when he left that morning then he could still come back. And I won’t be alone again. I - I don’t think I can do this without him.”

— Sophia Hunt, a quote from my short story: Sultan’s Empress

                           my own original character and story.

                          Sophia to Prince Harry four months later

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