Ann Aguirre

“How can you miss someone who’s right beside you?”

“He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.”

“A divided heart offers a strange sensation.”

“The first impression scares the shit out of me, but it’s breathtaking, too, like when you push off a cliff and feel the wind against your face. At that point, you’re not thinking of anything but free fall.”

“I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.”

“You don’t need to be afraid of falling // when there’s someone aroundto catch you.”

“Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.”

“Dying in our sleep won’t solve anything in the long run, even if a nihilist would argue it’s coming down the pike at some point anyway, so we might as well embrace it.”

“I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.”

“There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.”

“It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.”

“They say an interesting life leaves its mark on your face, and if that’s true,she’s got one hell of a story.”

“I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.”

“Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.”

“We’re both so fucking broken that I understand our strange attraction, a push-pull magnetism born of similar scars.”

“Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It’s like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.”

“I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.”

“Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.”

“Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.”

“You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.”