"His words stayed with her for years. Each night as she lay waiting for sleep, she tried to re-create the evening in her mind — the tone of his voice, his hand on her shoulder. Soon the memory was worn as an old photograph, the edges fuzzy from frequent handling; she worried that she’d gotten the words wrong, forgotten some nuance of his face or voice. Finally she wondered if she’d made the whole thing up."
— Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh
"Change life through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish yor friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that."
— Emma Morley, One Day (David Nicholls)
"This feeling. That I hate the most. Is back. I already lost this. But now it’s back."
Talk about our future like we had a clue.
Never planned that one day I’d be losing you.
In another life I would be your girl.
We keep all promises be us against the world.
In another life I would make you stay.
So I don’t have to say you were the one that got away.
"We always realize things when it’s too late. Take advantage of your life everyday and truly live. Enjoy life as much as you can."
— Diary of a Nymphomaniac
"Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they’re scared for the fear to become real."
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"It always feels like there is just one person in this world to love, and then you find somebody else. and it just seems crazy that you were ever worried in the first place"
— Lexi Grey, Grey’s Anatomy. (via indulgents)
(Source: quote-book)
