Here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another...
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Haruki Murakami
Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.
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Becca Fitzpatrick
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.
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Jonathan Tropper
I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.
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Alexandra Adornetto
Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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Holly Black
More Quotes By Per Petterson
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
But that's life. That's what you learn from when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.
All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it often did. I can say that much. That it often did. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>I have been lucky. But even then, for instance in...
You decide for yourself when it will hurt.
...you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.
