I Would Leave Me If I Could, by Halsey

“I can hold a grudge like it’s a hand.” – pg. 12

“I always liked it when it’s sunny and warm. You like it cold ’cause you’re from the north.” – pg. 39

“Looks like you always seem to get what you want. Even when it goes against the natural odds.” – pg. 39

“I fall in love like every week.” – pg. 73

“I find a million dandelions blowing through my head and they are beautiful.” – pg. 80

“I’m half of everything I hate, and half of anything I create is you too. […] So I’ll start to hate my future when I hate you” – pg. 85 & 98

“How strange to write about ‘having’ when for so long I’ve drawn inspiration only from longing?” – pg. 103

“Does it arouse us, to watch the smoke? The lingering aftermath of the thing that we feign control of, but are at the mercy of?” – pg. 113

“Of all the wrongs you committed, the worst was keeping me from the beauty in anything that wasn’t you.” – pg. 131