“I didn’t appreciate at that age the different way women loved, using their bodies and their heart and their spirit and their soul. I didn’t appreciate that they felt part of someone when they were in love with them. I promised myself I would never tell a woman I loved them unless I simply couldn’t bear not to. I told myself that relationships were not a game, no matter much everyone wants you to join in.” LovePainRomanceHealingRelationshipSorrowHeartbreakLove LossLove Lost Author:Guy Mankowski
“It occurred to me that so often in life, as we move around the stage set of this world, we feel as if we are trying to create a sense of truth about what we do. We use rituals and dates, and we imbue events with significance, all as part of our desperate attempt to make life feel real. But perhaps the only real is our private communion with a personal sense of meaning?” PeopleLife LessonsHealingLife PhilosophyLife And LivingLife Quotes And SayingsMeaning Author:Guy Mankowski
“All I could hear in these stories about shitty people treating each other in shitty ways was an empty nihilism. Tear it down by all means, but then surely you had to build it back up? So many stories were Irvine Welsh rip-offs. He might've told us we could 'Choose Life'- and that meant consumerism, the other option being drugs. But beyond that binary there had to be something more- people wanting to heal, wanting to create something positive?” LifeLiteratureHealingYoung PeopleMillenialsMillennial AuthorsMillennials QuotesInter Generation Book:You Complete the Masterpiece: A Novel Source: You Complete the Masterpiece: A Novel