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“I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it.”
― Ivan Turgenev, First Love

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“Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been...”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice

tags: agony, anguish, bliss, longing

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“She felt her pounding heart. Her hand seemed to enclose it. She thought for the first time in her life that it was nothing that was hers, that belonged to her, but just a pounding, living thing inside this body that wasn’t really hers either.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Selected Early Stories

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“He’s bringing back parts of me that I thought were dead, resurrecting my soul from ashes. But all the shadows that lurk inside me, hiding the monster within... Those are parts he can never see.”
― S.T. Abby, The Mindf*ck Series

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“The man standing in front of her was not the man he had been ten years ago. He had been hardened by violence, and she could see the glints of that menace winking out from every facet of his being like diamonds bursting under pressure. And she was as much a captive to that vicious brilliance as a moth was to a killing flame.”
― Nenia Campbell, Rent Girl

tags: dangerous-man, dark-romance, darkness, forbidden-love, villain-romance, villains

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