Maddolives

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

“But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever”

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”

“Being with you never felt wrong. It’s the one thing I did right. You’re the one thing I did right.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

“Loneliness is a strange sort of thing. It creeps up on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in the dark, strokes your hair as you sleep. It wraps itself around your bones, squeezing so tight you almost can’t breathe, almost can’t hear the pulse racing in your blood as it rushes up your skin and touches its lips to the soft hairs at the back of your neck. It leaves lies in your heart, lies next to you at night, leaches the light out from every corner. It’s a constant companion, clasping your hand only to yank you down when you’re struggling to stand up, catching your tears only to force them down your throat.”

“It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.”

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”

“Every time you show your feelings, you apologize. Have you ever had an emotion in your life that you weren’t ashamed of?”

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.”

“You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me.”

“I’ve lived too long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it.”