I kept saying this is not a wound, this is a scar. This is not somebody who’s hurt, this is somebody who’s stopped feeling in order to never be hurt again.
— David Fincher

I knew at a glance
There would always be a chance for me
With someone I could live for
Nowhere I would rather be

Love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

The fear of offending is stronger than the fear of pain.
“It was then that I noticed Harriet wasn’t there. And she wasn’t there the next morning, or the next, or the next 40 years.” The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)