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“I don’t know if this ever happened to you, if you’ve loved someone, loved who they are, then found out they’re not that person after all. It doesn’t just break your heart, does it? It breaks you. Then you’re not who you thought you were, either.”

Love Heartbreak Betrayal Deception

Book:Heart-Shaped Bruise

Source: Heart-Shaped Bruise

“They say home isn't where you live,' I said, 'but where you're understood.' Heart-Shaped Bruise”

Author:Tanya Byrne

“Home isn't where you live,' I said, 'but where you're understood.”

Book:Heart-Shaped Bruise

Source: Heart-Shaped Bruise

“Even when we're forty and all of this feels so very far away. I hope we remember that inside, we will always be the people we are tonight.”

Life Quotes Growing Up Youth Existential

Author:Tanya Byrne

“No girls until after your GCSEs." I'm so startled that I just gape at her as she hands it back. I'm used to it-it's what she always tells Rosh and me: No boys until after your GCSEs- but she said it. She may have waited until my father wasn't in the room, but she did. I heard her say it and I want to grab her and hug her because I don't think I've ever loved her so much. Girls. Maybe she's coming around after all.”

Coming Out Page 57 Queer Acceptance

Book:Afterlove

Source: Afterlove

“She really is beautiful. Not oil-painting beautiful or billboard beautiful [...] The sort of beautiful that keeps you up at night, scared that you're going to fuck it up because you're not ready.”

Love Love Quotes

Book:Afterlove

Source: Afterlove

“Doctor Gilyard was right, Juliet and I do have a lot in common. She lost her mother, I lost my mother. She lost her father, I lost my father. She had to start again, I had to start again. She had to pretend to be someone else, I had to pretend to be someone else. But where she was better for it, I was worse. Where she used what happened to make her stronger, I held on to it. I let it distil into something filthy and black. And I hated her for that. Hated her.”

Darkness Emily Koll

Book:Heart-Shaped Bruise

Source: Heart-Shaped Bruise

“But I can’t talk to her because she’s going through hell and she doesn’t need to hear me ranting about a vase. But that happens sometimes, Rose, you want to talk about stuff but you can’t because your friends are going through things—real things, painful things—and you can’t talk to them because your stuff doesn’t feel as important as theirs.”

Friendship Insecurity Problems Self Disclosure

Book:Heart-Shaped Bruise

Source: Heart-Shaped Bruise