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“Please follow these instructions:
1. Stack the pages of this letter neatly.
2. Roll the pages up into a cylinder.
3. Smack yourself over the head with it.
4. Repeat. You complete ass.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
1. Stack the pages of this letter neatly.
2. Roll the pages up into a cylinder.
3. Smack yourself over the head with it.
4. Repeat. You complete ass.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Maybe the reason people avoid you is because the emotions your brain sends out when you click are kind of... negative emotions?
Maybe you're clicking unhappiness at people, and they're sending it back in echoes.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
Maybe you're clicking unhappiness at people, and they're sending it back in echoes.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Auburn-Stache. Am I selfish?"
"I've never met a soul that wasn't. I've met a lot of people who don't bother wondering.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
"I've never met a soul that wasn't. I've met a lot of people who don't bother wondering.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Let me tell you a wondrous story. For once, let me be the shining one. It is springtime. Birds are noisiest now. I can almost see the shape of the sky.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Maybe we're on the wrong side of some metaphorical bridge where the grass is crusty and not grass at all, but sharp little spines of glass. I dunno, Moritz.
But the one little speck of green that I get is your letters, so please never stop writing me.
You got that?
Never stop.
Because you'll never meet me and it's the closest we can get.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
But the one little speck of green that I get is your letters, so please never stop writing me.
You got that?
Never stop.
Because you'll never meet me and it's the closest we can get.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Wait, how do most people make friends? I've only done it once. There has to be an easier way of going abouit it than getting thrown around and bleeding all over the place. But both of us went through that. So maybe...
Nosebleeds = Friendship Maybe friends are drawn to bloodsheed. You know. Like sharks.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
Nosebleeds = Friendship Maybe friends are drawn to bloodsheed. You know. Like sharks.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Let me put it more artistically, with greater sophistication:
They left us in the toilet. In the deepest pile of shit. And we're coated in the crappy residue of their desicions. But that does not mean we are the one who pooped, Moritz. And neither are we the poop.
Never think that. We're not the poop.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
They left us in the toilet. In the deepest pile of shit. And we're coated in the crappy residue of their desicions. But that does not mean we are the one who pooped, Moritz. And neither are we the poop.
Never think that. We're not the poop.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Even if you are powerless, your words are not”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“I want to read all the books that made you, Ollie Ollie UpandFree.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Who'd have thoght I could miss someone I've never actually met? Me. I've thought that. I miss tons of things I've never seen, and now you most of all.”
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“Maybe people confess at sunset because it feels like time is running out”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“I know that there's a customary cliche about librarians being what crass people might call "hard-asses".”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“The eyes are windows to the soul”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“I am not afraid that you will hurt me. If you do, the scars won't last for eternity. People hurt each other all the time. Especially when they care for each other.”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“There's more than one way to be a fragile person.”
― Wild and Crooked
― Wild and Crooked
“...and I couldn’t reply because, aside from my disgust and my anger and my scorching throat, what tasted worse was knowing he was right.”
― Nowhere Near You
― Nowhere Near You
“...basically everything in the world is miraculous.”
― Nowhere Near You
― Nowhere Near You
“Sana süper kahramanlığı hedef almamız gerektiğini söylediğimi biliyorum ama belki de haklısındır. Belki de önce normalliği hedeflemeliyiz.Normalliğin imkansız bir şey olması çok yazık .”
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
― Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Sometimes it's about working with your bad parts, not fixing them.”
― Nowhere Near You
― Nowhere Near You
“I am so accustomed to pains in my chest, Ollie. Those pains are infinitely trivial beside the notion of not meeting the boy I love.”
― Nowhere Near You
― Nowhere Near You
“I know you are good. You befriended me, of all people.
Can you blame yourself for how you behaved after a head injury and grief and fear garbled your mind?
I only blame you for not sharing this burden.
The cruelties of this world extend beyond what others do to us; they extend into the decisions we make when we are in no fit state to make them. Extend into our regrets and remorse's tendency to make the smallest of our mistakes into monstrous walls we cannot clamber over.”
― Nowhere Near You
Can you blame yourself for how you behaved after a head injury and grief and fear garbled your mind?
I only blame you for not sharing this burden.
The cruelties of this world extend beyond what others do to us; they extend into the decisions we make when we are in no fit state to make them. Extend into our regrets and remorse's tendency to make the smallest of our mistakes into monstrous walls we cannot clamber over.”
― Nowhere Near You
“Stop saying the c-word." Moritz, I'm not looking for a cure. Really, I can't imagine being someone who didn't see the world how I do. Can you imagine if someone tried to hand you some eyeballs? You'd flush them down a toilet. With dignity.
As a kid, I daydreamed about being normal, like kids with glasses still daydream about being astronauts. Daydreams aren't realistic. I only wanted normal because I thought normal was a word that meant "surviving the world.”
― Nowhere Near You
As a kid, I daydreamed about being normal, like kids with glasses still daydream about being astronauts. Daydreams aren't realistic. I only wanted normal because I thought normal was a word that meant "surviving the world.”
― Nowhere Near You
“But that's the thing - outsiders lump kids with CP under the same umbrella, and that's another umbrella under the enormous parasol of congenital disorders, which sits under the gargantuan black canopy of disability. We're sorted into categories, but we can be nothing alike. I don't even mean how some of us are hemiplegic and others are paraplegic, or how some of us are spastic and others aren't, or some of us have learning disabilities and others don't. I mean on a perso al level, we're all different people.
That should be obvious right?
Camp Wigwah is where I realized my disability is like any other part of a person - eyes or ears or teeth or height - and that it's a variable. I have poor eyesight, and the muscles on my right side are tense threads that make my knees collide. But Karen Yuen's in a wheelchair, and Ali Sniridan spasms every evening.
I started thinking of CP as a part of me, and I stopped resenting it so much. It seems dumb to ask your eye color to change. An AFO isn't bad when you think of it like a pair of glasses. I love my glasses; they're one fashion accessory that demands no explanation.
That's how the space brace came about. Mom and Tamara were trying to make me love myself. But it's harder when it's someone else's decision.”
― Wild and Crooked
That should be obvious right?
Camp Wigwah is where I realized my disability is like any other part of a person - eyes or ears or teeth or height - and that it's a variable. I have poor eyesight, and the muscles on my right side are tense threads that make my knees collide. But Karen Yuen's in a wheelchair, and Ali Sniridan spasms every evening.
I started thinking of CP as a part of me, and I stopped resenting it so much. It seems dumb to ask your eye color to change. An AFO isn't bad when you think of it like a pair of glasses. I love my glasses; they're one fashion accessory that demands no explanation.
That's how the space brace came about. Mom and Tamara were trying to make me love myself. But it's harder when it's someone else's decision.”
― Wild and Crooked
“No, how do you know I'm good? Can you really just tell by looking at someone?' What if someone could see the goodness inside people, in colors, how I see electricity?”
― Nowhere Near You
― Nowhere Near You
“I have much human thinking to do, which is no simple thing. My conscience is a carefully cultivated thing.”
― Wild and Crooked
― Wild and Crooked
“When I was five, I hit my head and my soul flew out of me.”
― Wild and Crooked
― Wild and Crooked
“There're always more truths than one. Knowing who I am, or thinking I might know? That's only half a truth. Because my identity will always be halfway informed by the world. It has to be informed by something. Usually we define ourselves by loving things, Doc Martens or Shakespeare or music or whatever. But if the things we love are other people, those people define us. And then they're a part of you, and they change what you know about yourself.”
― Wild and Crooked
― Wild and Crooked
“When you were three—and you won’t remember this—you fell off your bike and smacked your head.”
― Wild and Crooked
― Wild and Crooked
“But here's my humble pie: I've never been all that awesome at patience.”
― Nowhere Near You
― Nowhere Near You
“...I’m finally getting a little taste of how terrifying strangers can be and a bigger appreciation of what it is to be you, alone in a crowd of people.”
― Nowhere Near You
― Nowhere Near You
