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You took my hand and held it for a few milliseconds. Your soft palm pressed against mine. I can’t erase the thought of just how soft your hand felt, it surprised me. With your cool, tough, manly exterior, I didn’t expect such softness, but maybe I should’ve seen it coming. After all, your hands turned out to be as soft as your heart.

- R.S

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Lesson learned today: the end of a chapter is the opportunity for a new one !

[wordsforsunset]

Trying to wrap my mind around the fact that you won’t come back the same way you used to wrap your arms around me.

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"Ils sont si pressés de vivre." "On est toujours pressé d’être heureux."

- Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

("They are such in a hurry to live." "We’re always in a hurry to be happy.")

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“I am told: this kind of love is not viable. But how do we assess viability? Why is viable a good thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?”

Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

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“The curve of the waist is a part that every lover must travel.”

- Seema Anand

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"I love you, I love you, I love you!" they hear. "Love me, love me, please love me!" I really mean to say.

- R.S

[wordsforsunset]

“I hope the sun pours light upon our skin. And we melt into each other, into everything. Maybe the trees will speak, as they sometimes do. Whispers from the shade - Run, run away.

- Alex Wharton, The Gardener

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“There are people who would never have fallen in love had they not heard speak of love."

- François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

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“They have forbidden themselves from showing their emotions, and experience slowly comforted them in that decision. Disappointed by not finding anyone to listen, hurt by the lack of care and interest in the reaction of others, convinced that "opening up" is immediately "pouring out", they never let themselves talk about their feelings. They think that "people don’t have time to waste listening to their problems anyways", and find it more natural to be part of those who listen than part of the ones listened to.”

- Catherine Bensaïd, Aime-toi, la vie t’aimera

[wordsforsunset]

When I said I was falling for you, I hoped it would be in love, not in hell.

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“My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.”

- Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love and Leaps of Faith

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“J'ai des morceaux de toi dans le cœur, dans l'âme et sur la peau. Quand d'autres ne laissent que le vide, de toi je garde tout, j'ai toujours tout gardé.”

- Unknown

(I have pieces of you in my heart, in my soul and on my skin. When some leave only emptiness behind, of you I keep everything, I’ve always kept everything.)

[wordsforsunset]

This loneliness…I’m learning to cherish it, as it is just another sign of the love I feel for you.

- R.S

[wordsforsunset]

I mean, sure, you’ve hurt me. I was at my weakest state, I was young and naïve. I hung out to every word that came out of your mouth because I put you on a pedestal. You were older than me so I thought everything you said, everything you did it was probably right, you know? Because you had so much more experience than me. But then…when reality started to hit me in the face, I came back to my senses. I don’t know how I did it. I don’t know how I managed to come back to being a person outside of you, how I managed to realise that I was worth better. That my blood didn’t deserve to be spilled, and my tears didn’t deserve to be shed in your name. That my body was worth more than the touch of your hands on it. That I didn’t belong to you, instead I belonged deeply to myself. I don’t know how I did it, but I made it and I realised that the sky was blue before you and it would still be blue after you. So yeah, you’ve hurt me. There’s a part of me, a part of my story, that will always belong to you. But I’ve moved on.

- R.S, I’m worth better

[wordsforsunset]

I really do believe that there is a whole universe inside of all of us. I don’t know how to explain it. I’ve never felt particularly special, but my own individuality has always been dazzling to me.

- R.S

[wordsforsunset]

It sucks when even your best isn’t enough