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“Whatever happens, I loved you well.”
— Alexander Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias (1848)
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- David Wojnarowicz, from 'Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration'
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"But I wasn't crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us."
– Mieko Kawakami, "Heaven"
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“Don’t save your good lingerie for dates, wear it for you.”
— Dita von Teese
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“If we’re going to talk, then let’s talk. Forget about what is polite or proper and delve right into what is sincere and honest. Lead me down through the labyrinth of your true, spectacular self. I am not interested in pleasantries. If you want a conversation, then let’s get lost.”
— Beau Taplin
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Shuttered in hot light and oil-seared stars, you alone carry the weight of planetary anxieties.
Sally Wen Mao, Sonnets for Kudryavka
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“Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.”
—Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous (Chronicles of Nick, #3)
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“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.”
— Stephen King
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“Don’t be a fool. Don’t give up something important to hold onto someone who can’t even say they love you.”
— Sarah Dessen
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