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“I can't take things day by day when I'm too horrified by the thought of tomorrow. I’m underwater.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift. You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Seeing your past - or a person from your - can for me at least be physically painful. I'm overwhelmed by a melancholic ache - and I want the past back, not matter the cost. It doesn't matter that it won't come back; that it never even actually existed as I remember it - I want it back. I want things to be like they were, or like I remember them having been: Whole. But she doesn't remind me of the past, for some reason, she feels present tense”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I hope you will listen to a certain overlooked and different voice within you. Because the human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too.”
― I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
― I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
“He ploughed through before his tears could catch up. 'I want to believe in the future we're fighting for, but it's not there, it's just not there, and I can't take things day by day when I'm too horrified by the thought of tomorrow. I'm underwater. And I've been underwater for so long, and I a way out, but couldn't find one that didn't feel like some - some great abdication of responsibility.”
― Babel
― Babel
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