“My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it’s possible to be healed without feeling whole.”
— Monica Hesse
“But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.”
— Monica Hesse
“Then you know. You know what it’s like to love someone like you love yourself and lose them.”
— Monica Hesse
“But I supposed love doesn’t stop, even in wars.”
— Monica Hesse
“Girls in love will do desperate and creative things.”
— Monica Hesse
“I found a girl who wasn’t the girl I was looking for. I let go of a friend I’ll still miss every day. I’ll go back to work. I’ll get better. I’ll get better slowly. I’ll find all the secret, hidden things.”
— Monica Hesse
“Tow best friends meeting on the street to say so many things at once: I betrayed you, I love you, I want to save you, I’m sorry. All around Europe, people are dying by the hundreds of thousands. And here, in my city, the Nazis slaughtered a family because of events that started with love and jealousy and a slip of the tongue.”
— Monica Hesse