"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."
vs
"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."
“It’s okay if I’m not your favorite chapter you have written, but I hope you sometimes smile when you flip back to the pages I was still apart of.”
— Unknown
I never lost someone worth keeping
📖 books i read in 2023: better than the movies by lynn painter
“I fell in love with teasing you in the second grade, when I first discovered that I could turn your cheeks pink with just a word. Then I fell in love with you.”
"I wish you joy" Jane Austen, from a letter to her brother Frank (26 July 1809)
being kissed in your sleep and being pulled closer within cuddles is such a top tier form of affection
I am not meant for casual. I was born for soul crushing devotion.
“I still look back on those evenings we spent together as the happiest part of my life, and I wanted it to go on forever.”
— Henry MacAlpine