V

"Against all reason, and after every 'what if-' had spoken, I found that I loved you still."

First: you say you feel nothing. Then, your eyes start to agree with you. Then one day, someone you love, probably, cries in front of you. And your only thought is "when is dinner?"

"I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched."

"I’m so pathetically intense. I just can’t be any other way."

"Terrified again of not loving. Of loving and not you. Of being loved and not by you."

"Is this what growing up is? Just leaving things behind, over and over?"

"Of all the ways a soul has to die, death is the most merciful; of all the ways a person is buried, the grave is the kindest."

"I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong."

"There's a lot men don't understand. Any girl prefers a miserable man to a success story, because she wants love to be active. Men are busy. For them, love is secondary. A little conversation, a walk in the garden, and that's all. To me, loving you means dreaming up ways to cure your anguish, and following you anywhere. If you're in heaven, I'm in heaven. If you're down, I'm down with you."

"Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting."

"Nobody can bear to live on if no one ever tells them, 'it's okay for you to live'."

"The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment."

"I was raised in a family where women made it happen, with or without a man. So trust me when I say I’ve got this."

They asked "do you love her to death?"

I said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life."

"It's not a shame if a man learns something from a woman's heart which makes him more gentle and human."

"A girl becomes a woman when her fantasies of violence are no longer focused inwards, but outwards."