andimortem

“I don't know why people try to be friends with their exes. I mean, we were never friends, so why try after having decided that an intimate relationship isn't going to work? Friendships are intimate, too. You can't just, like, turn the connection down a notch and hope to make it better. It's still the same connection, and if it's faulty it's going to stay faulty.”
― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

“That's the best way to know anything, although no one ever tells you that. No one ever says, "Just use the expansive feeling in your chest to understand what's true, and what you want, and where to go, and what really matters," because they're too busy forcing you to learn from books that they're choosing, and pointing at whiteboards that they're writing on, and encouraging you to ask questions from curriculums that they've set.”
― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

“He felt locked into Lane’s version of him. Disposable. Occupying a space, a slot in the world, for no good reason.
And therefore, in the end—after years of what he took to be closeness—not even worth a goodbye.
He must be less than no one. Because no one, at least, contained possibility.”
― Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

“All the lines that help me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings to a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was--my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self--disconnected from me in that second--snip, snip, snip--and floated up into space.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn