“What you're trying to say is that it's easier for you to hide in your own darkness, than emerge cloaked in your own vulnerability. Not better, but easier. However the longer you hold it in, the more likely you are to suffocate.
At some point, you must breathe.”
― Open Water
At some point, you must breathe.”
― Open Water
“You’ll sigh and gaze towards a sky which shows no signs of darkening, and say, I guess where was something in the room that night, which I didn’t feel until I met her. Something which, looking back, I couldn’t ignore”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“You wish you had the words, no, you wish you had the courage to climb up from whatever pit you have fallen into, but right now, you do not.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“There’s so much more you wish to say but there aren’t the words.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“Every time you remember something, the memory weakens, as you’re remembering the last recollection, rather than the memory itself. Nothing can remain in tact. Still, it does not stop you wanting, does not stop you longing.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
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