“It’s one thing to be looked at, and another to be seen.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“You know that to love is both to swim and to drown. You know to love is to be a whole, partial, a joint, a fracture, a heart, a bone. It is to bleed and heal. It is to be in the world, honest. It is to place someone next to your beating heart, in the absolute darkness of your inner, and trust they will hold you close. To love is to trust, to trust is to have faith. How else are you meant to love? You knew what you were getting into, but taking the Underground, returning home with no certainty of when you will see her next, it is terrifying.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“It’s good to be kind to people, especially the people you love, because you never know what it’s like to walk in their shoes until one day you do. And by then, it’s often too late to make a real difference.”
― The Reading List
― The Reading List
“I think you can read whatever you want into anything. That is the point of books.”
― The Reading List
― The Reading List
“no matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart.”
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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