“The normal reasons. Like, I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. It’s all the dumb clichés about how even when I’m mad at you I love you and how every day the best part of it is waking up next to you. And it kills me that this is all the normal, typical people-in-love stuff, because I want to believe our love is special—that it’s bigger and more interesting than any love that anyone else has had before—but the heartbreaking truth is my love for you is so consistent and predictable and boring.”
― Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
― Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“There was no need for reassurance or directionality because I was nowhere, doing nothing. I was nothing. I was gone.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I told him a Turkish joke about two deaf fishermen. “Are you going fishing?” the first fisherman asked. The second fisherman said, “No, I’m going fishing.” Then the first fisherman said, “Oh— I thought you were going fishing.” Ivan told me a joke about a scientist who had a grant to study fleas. He would shout, “Jump,” and measure how far the flea jumped. After a while it got boring because the flea always jumped the same distance, so he pulled off the flea’s legs, one by one. The distance got shorter and shorter, until finally he had pulled off all six legs and the flea didn’t jump at all. “If you remove six legs,” the scientist concluded, “the flea cannot hear.” I thought it was really funny.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Odio que estas cosas sean así, tan escabrosas, los ex novios. Lo raro es, de un día para el otro, ya no saber nada de una persona con la que compartías todo y a la que conocías intimamente, compartir todo, de cada día, lo que le pasaba cada día y después, de repente, de un momento a otro, ya nunca más nada y ni siquiera tener derecho a llamarlo o sí, o llamarlo igual, pero todo se vuelve incómodo, hasta lo más básico se vuelve incómodo. Dejar de tener derecho al otro, perderlo por completo, tan así, como si tal cosa. Odio eso, esa muerte artificial, ese ensayo de una muerte: hacerte a la idea de que esa persona desaparece, desapareció, se fue de tu vida y ya no tenés derecho a saber más nada de él. De ella. De la persona. Es absurdo, violento. Si sigue viviendo y anda cerca, o no, querés saber como está, en qué anda, no sé, algo. ¿O no? ¿No sería eso lo lógico? Voy a ver, a lo mejor paso por su casa hoy a la tarde, por la casa de los viejos, a ver qué onda, a ver si toco el timbre, a ver si me entero de algo.”
― August
― August
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