#lost

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.. ↗

— John Green

#love

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#love

Blood isn't love ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love

Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#piper-mclean #the-lost-hero #love

There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-lost-souls #clary-fray #cols #jace-herondale #jace-lightwood

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#gone #goodbye #leaving #lost #love

He clutched the watch hard in his fist, determined to destroy it, to prove that it couldn't be real. That she hadn't come here because of him, for him. That he hadn't done what he knew he had. ↗

— Kelly Creagh

#isobel #lost-love #varen-nethers #love

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#love

Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months? ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love

This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it. ↗

— Helen Humphreys

#love