“One thing I truly knew — knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest — was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I had been broken beyond repair.”

— Stephenie Meyer

Bella Swan, p. 219
Twilight series, New Moon (2006)

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