J'ai rêvé qu'on pouvait s'aimer.

"I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. We were so intimate once upon a time I can’t believe it now. I think that’s the strangest thing of all now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can’t imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven’t been."

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Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From (via simply-quotes)

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"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."

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George R.R. Martin (via simply-quotes)

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"Forgetting isn’t enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and again. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound."

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Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl (via simply-quotes)

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"Sometimes moving on takes effort. Sometimes moving on is harder than it looks."

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Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise (via simply-quotes)

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"I was waiting for you―for years. I didn’t live. I just waited for you to come back."

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Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist (via simply-quotes)

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"If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again."

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Lisa Jewell, Vince and Joy (via simply-quotes)

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"And he left. I watched him walk out—he didn’t say goodbye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that."

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Sara Zarr, Sweethearts (via simply-quotes)

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"I know that’s what people say—you’ll get over it. I’d say it, too. But I know it’s not true. Oh, you’ll be happy again, never fear. But you won’t forget."

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Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (via simply-quotes)

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