447 Quotes by L.J. Shen

My wings are not meant to fly,” I whispered. “They’re meant to shield our family.

I hated liking her. In a sense, it was like handing her the keys to the pit of my soul while she was tanked as hell and telling her to drive carefully.

Isn’t that the essence of love? Find someone worth killing for? Someone with the power to ruin you?

I used to think of you as a villain, but you’re not my villain. You’re your own villain.

Yesterday I lay with you in a bed of glass We broke together trying to survive your past Still, in your pain I found magic The beauty in something so raw and tragic When life feels banal and ordinary and beat Run to me, my blue-eyed girl, to the place where pleasure and pain meet.

While I watched her cook, I suddenly realized it was her art. The pan was her canvas, the ingredients her paint. She cooked with fire in her eyes, with passion in her soul, with love in her heart.

Everyone can – and does – see my scars. No exceptions. My soul is empty, because I whored it out. I.

Life is full of secrets, and narrow-minded people, and sugar-coated, empty conversations that hold no weight. What’s real is what’s inside us. What’s important is what we feel.

The only person I needed was me.