447 Quotes by L.J. Shen

Loving someone is willingly accepting that they can destroy you.

If you leave me,” he said, “you take my soul with you.

Accepting the fact that you loved someone was much harder than falling for that person. It took time. And courage.

Always part ways with people you love like you’ll never see them again.

If you want to be strong, be.

It’s ironic, my need to be strong for a man who is my only weakness.

Every painful goodbye starts with a wonderful hello.

I was born into a gilded cage. It was spacious, but locked, nonetheless. Trying to escape it was risking death. I didn’t like being a prisoner, but I imagined I’d like it much less than being six feet under. And so I’d never even dared to peek through the bars of my prison and see what was on the other side.

My daughter was beautiful and the world was ugly and I didn’t know how to help her. And it killed me like cancer. Slowly. Surely. Savagely.