Taj

“This is hard, isn't it?"
"Yes"I said. "Is it supposed to be hard Mom?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed.”
― MesserMoon, Choices

“You know,” he says, swallowing with some difficulty. “I always thought I was Achilles in this story—the over controlling mother, the famed heritage, the great expectations,” he smiles wryly. “But here I am James, wearing your armour, rushing off into battles I have no business fighting. Playing the hero, and failing, like the secondary character I am,” he laughs. “But that’s—“ he has to clear his throat. “That’s where the metaphor ends okay? Fuck fate, fuck prophecies, let someone else handle it. Let someone else save the day. You just…go away somewhere okay? Go live your beautiful life. Fade into obscurity, leave the heroics to people who have less to offer the world. Don’t go to Troy.”
― MesserMoon, Choices