Steven

“I wish I wrote the way I thought
Obsessively
Incessantly
With maddening hunger
I’d write to the point of suffocation
I’d write myself into nervous breakdowns
Manuscripts spiralling out like tentacles into abysmal nothing
And I’d write about you
a lot more
than I should”
― Benedict Smith

“I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”
― Lili St. Crow, Jealousy

“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers