“I didn't just foster the delusions. I lived them. Even after the world crashed, I clung to them. But after he died, I told myself no more. No more brave fronts or false hopes or pretending everything's okay when nothing is. I thought I was being tough by pretending, calling it being optimistic, brave, keeping my head up or whatever bullshit seemed to fit the moment. That's not tough. That's the very definition of soft.”
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“Because love is the most dangerous weapon in the world. It’s more unstable than uranium.”
“There's nothing left to say. There's a million things left to say.”
“One day private ringer you're going to smile at something I say and the world will break in half.”