When You Were Pixels
Julio-Alexi Genao
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I loved you even when you forgot me. And—for a little while—you loved me back.”
“I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things. But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.”
“I know you’ve forgotten me, but I’ll remember you as long as I live.”
“You were the monster, but all I could see was the boy.”
“You won't remember me. You won't need me anymore. You will leave me again. I forgive you. I forgave you. I will always forgive you. You should know that for a little while, you were not alone.Not alone. I loved you when you were pixels on a screen.”
“For one unbelievable moment, the emptiness— the ache —that terrible hollow of desolation I’d lived with all this time was just – gone.”
“I watched you roll off me and step away from the bed in silence, but when the heat of your body was gone, I wanted it back.”
“You’re safe, here.” “But you are not,” you whispered. “Not ever. I forget. I forget and then I’ll—I could kill you.” When I didn’t reply, you dropped your head again. I almost missed it when you murmured, “I always kill them, in the end.”
“They’d come for you, and this time they’d come with weapons. I was afraid of that. For you. But not of you. Never afraid of you.”
“That’s why I was calm. When you woke me in the middle of the night with your hand around my throat, and I thought I was going to die for bringing you home—that I had given my life to lie down next to a murderer—that’s why I was calm. Because all I was thinking in that moment was that it was worth it.”
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Book Keywords:
trust, unrequited-love, sacrifice, risk, love, fear, loneliness, generosity, brokenness, wounds, rage, desire, vulnerability
