

“I wish someone had told me that love isn’t torture. Because I thought love was this thing that was supposed to tear you in two and leave you heartbroken and make your heart race in the worst way. I thought love was bombs and tears and blood. I did not know that it was supposed to make you lighter, not heavier. I didn’t know it was supposed to take only the kind of work that makes you softer. I thought love was war. I didn’t know it was supposed to… I didn’t know it was supposed to be peace.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six

“Ask the questions you want to ask. Seek out the people you want in your life. It might not be as hard as you think.”
― Lost For Words
― Lost For Words

“She had written something that felt like I could have written it, except I knew I couldn't have. I wouldn't have come up with something like that. Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six

“I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing

“Never mistake being nice for being weak.”
― Imaginary Friend
― Imaginary Friend

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