brooke

“I don’t want to have to be the one who mourns everything when everyone else has clearly forgotten. It’s mortifying. It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.”
― Ryan O'Connell

“I spent all my teen-age years being obsessed with beauty, and I’m very resentful about it and I’m very angry.
I had so much intelligence and energy and drive, and instead of using that to study more, or instead of pursuing something or going out and learning about or changing the world, I directed all that fire inward, and burnt myself up.”
― mitski