We are young, but We already know that in life's great game those who are most unhappy are those who haven't taken the risk to be happy. And I don't want to be one of those
Guillaume MussoIt's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.
Guillaume MussoHe was the sort of guy who took a lot without giving her anything back The more he hurt her the more desperately she loved him. Life's strange. Sometimes things happen almost as if we're punishing ourselves for some fault that we can't really identify.
Guillaume MussoLove is always dangerous. To love is to hope you'll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it's also about accepting that there's a risk that you'll love more than you are loved.
Guillaume MussoNow he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.
Guillaume MussoOn calm days, you always think you've conquered them. You think that in the end you've finally done them in. That you've got rid of them for good, now and forever. But that seldom happens. Most of the time, the demons are still there, lurking somewhere in the shadows. Tirelessly waiting for the moment when our guard drops. And when love goes away.
Guillaume MussoNothing stays the same it all gets crushed. It all gets broken. It all passes with time. Only the moment you're in has any meaning." "There are things that stand the test of time, there are things that last. Like love." "Love theres nothing more fragile or ephereal. Love is like fire on a rainy day: you've got to spend all your time protecting it, feeding it, tending it because if you don't it goes out." "There are some loves that last." "No, what lasts is the pain that comes after love.
Guillaume MussoEven when apologising, this guy turns on the charm. And the worst thing is that it works. She had reached a point in her life where she no longer expected anything from men, though that didn't stop her from falling in love with them.
Guillaume MussoSome say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.
Guillaume MussoWhen it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.
Guillaume MussoAs long as you remember the person who loved you, and whom you still love, then you're making love endure.
Guillaume MussoIt seemed as if I could see things in her that others couldn't see, qualities which not even she was aware of. It was as I I could already see in her the woman she would later become.
Guillaume MussoThe best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.
Guillaume MussoIn years past, to keep their men close, women would wear a ring and bear children. It doesn't work like that today. Nowadays, how do we hold on to those we love? I've no idea.
Guillaume MussoYou are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.
Guillaume MussoIt was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance.
Guillaume MussoIt is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. What scares you, is not your weaknesses, but your strengths.
Guillaume MussoThey were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other. Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished.
Guillaume MussoHe understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her. But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for?
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