I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do. Ann Aguirre More Quotes by Ann Aguirre More Quotes From Ann Aguirre There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn’t notice that the heart is gone. Ann Aguirre body gone heart Love can make us do dreadful things. Ann Aguirre My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash. Ann Aguirre should loss heart Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames. Ann Aguirre flames space people There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss. Ann Aguirre echoes self loss It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes. Ann Aguirre difficult easy Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places. Ann Aguirre hero sometimes Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore. Ann Aguirre pieces broken sometimes He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him. Ann Aguirre scar bears You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all. Ann Aguirre whole-life like-you feelings Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition. Ann Aguirre sight believe firsts Most people weren’t aware enough to fear the things that could really hurt them. Ann Aguirre enough hurt people I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them. Ann Aguirre knowing There’s a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don’t have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they’re all the same shade of gray. Ann Aguirre jigsaw-puzzles borders hate Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear. Ann Aguirre different eye sorry I wanted proof, not promises. Ann Aguirre proof wanted promise Life…never gave me a chance to be soft. Ann Aguirre chance I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to. Ann Aguirre asking-questions sick answers Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It’s like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved. Ann Aguirre fabric naked want We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are. Ann Aguirre bigger-and-better chains bigger