Quotes from book

Peony in Love

“Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.”

“all girls have dreams, even if our destinies are set.”

“In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”

“How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?”

“He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.”

“My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.”

“When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love”