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“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“In the future . . . if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again . . . fall in love with me.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I want you so badly that I'd do just about anything to have you," he said roughly. "The only thing I won't do though, is risk losing you. Can you promise me that if we do this, I won't lose you?”
― R.K. Lilley, Bad Things

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you."

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Love is never satisfied with half-measures.  It won’t take parts of you.  It will own all of you, every single, longing piece.   “Love will make you its slave,” I stated venomously.  “It will ruin you.  Grind you under its heel until you don’t recognize what’s left.   “Love will take your soul.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“The most toxic relationships in life are defined by the way they make us feel about ourselves.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“His lips were my own personal hell.  They were either his biggest lie, or his greatest betrayer.  Every kiss he’d ever given me, when we were in love or in hate, told me how he cared.  Told me how he longed.  Craved.  Pined.  Mourned.  Despaired.  Told me he was as desperate for me as ever.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Jealousy is always born with love but it does not die with it.” ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I hate you,” I told him, quietly and vehemently.
“I hate that I still love you.” Just as quiet, just as vehement. Far more destructive … “I hate that I’ll never stop.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“It was the sweetest torture, the most delightful torment, to let the man that had ruined me for joy bring it back into my body for one brief instant.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I love you too, I told him. There was nothing in the world I was more certain of. Not one thing. Not the sky or the moon, not the earth or the sun.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I do believe in love … I believe it’s the most destructive force on earth.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Never relinquish the keys to your soul to someone else. It gives them too much power.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Whether I was the love or hate of his life, nothing and no one would ever overshadow me.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up.  But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” ~Albert Einstein”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Love is a trap.  When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.” ~Paulo Coelho The”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Ah, sweet torture.   This was the part I dreaded the most.   When our eyes clashed, and everything, every horrible, wonderful, painful, ugly, beautiful, torturous, ruinous, gory bit of us came back to me.   It was bad enough when I didn’t have to look at him.   But when I did—exquisite torment, with a touch of pleasure so concentrated, so brutally pure it had ruined my life.   Broken my heart.   Eviscerated my soul.  I’d scraped what was left of that pathetic soul out myself, sawed it into little pieces and left it somewhere far behind.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“If the smooth lines of her face had been made of karma, she'd look like a withered old hag by now.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Neither of us have a choice in this. You and I being together is not a question, Scarlett, it’s a fact of life.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Please. I don’t make sense with you and you don’t make sense without me and you know it. we only ever worked together.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I have tormented some sweet men. Broken hearts and shattered dreams.

Men are punching bags, and I have a hell of a right hook.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“When they went in for the kill, it was usually with words. Because mean girls don't kill. They dehumanize.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life