“Grief, oh god, the weight of it. Depression was hollow, sadness was vacant. Neither was anything like this.”
Source: The Atlas Complex
“He had literally plummeted from the sky that morning, and yet this was the farthest he had ever fallen.”
Source: The Forgotten Colony
“Camilla sobbed, and then gently pulled him onto her lap, stroking his head.
'Please. Please get up.'
She had read enough fairy tales as a young girl to know that the prince was supposed to wake the love of his life with a kiss. But Envy was a demon, and Camilla was no damsel in distress. She pressed her lips to his forehead.
He didn't magically stir.”
Source: Throne of the Fallen
“You weren't wrong about me being a killer. But the only person I've ever tried to kill is myself.”
Source: Northranger: A Modern Graphic Novel Retelling of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
“That... that's really sad.'
'Some say all great love stories are.'
'Some people are stupid.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“Can I say of her face—altered as I have reason to remember it, perished as I know it is—that it is gone, when here it comes before me at this instant, as distinct as any face that I may choose to look on in a crowded street?… Can I say she ever changed, when my remembrance brings her back to life, thus only; and, truer to its loving youth, than I have ever been, or man ever is, still holds fast, what it cherished then?”
Source: David Copperfield
“People or stars
Regards me sadly, I disappoint them.”
Source: Sylvia Plath - Selected Poems (Faber Poetry) by Sylvia Plath (3-Mar-2003) Paperback
“I knew how it felt to be weighed down by the world around you so much that you could barely move your lips to speak.”
Source: The Keeper of Night
“It should also be mentioned that since 2006, a relatively mysterious fungal disease known as White-nose syndrome has killed more than six million bats in North America. The cause and cure is currently being researched, but I believe as of now the decimated populations remain a sad mystery. Here’s to hoping these little dudes prosper in the face of terrible times.”
“You don’t have to work overtime to get people to love you. Love isn’t earned, it’s given.”
Source: Twisted Love