

“She loved him so much, that it already hurt. It already felt like he'd broken her heart.”
― The Darkest Part of the Forest
― The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Have you ever, for even a second, thought about how hard it is for people like me just to stay alive?”
― A Girl on the Shore
― A Girl on the Shore

“Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of body against itself but of the will against the body”
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“Hearts are hard to mend after being broken for so long.”
― Aidan
― Aidan
“Shinju in Japanese literally means "inside the heart." More fully, it implies that if the heart were cut open, there would be found only devotion to one's lover; thus, "revealing-the-heart death.”
― Hara-Kiri: Japanese Ritual Suicide
― Hara-Kiri: Japanese Ritual Suicide
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