Marci

“I should be comforting Illa for her first heartbreak, I should've been stronger, set a better example, I should have confronted Eliza from the start, told James the truth about my feelings. But one thing I shouldn't have done was let fear and my self-guilt control everything I did. I was always scared of people leaving so I held on too tightly, allowing myself to suffer through pains that I never deserved instead of standing up for my own feelings. I wanted so badly for my relationships to work out that I let people hurt me. Over and over again. Love at the expense of losing myself. Losing my own voice.”
― Loridee De Villa, How to Be the Best Third Wheel

“Boys had no need of peripheral vision or a sense for being observed. It must be nice being biologically programmed with such arrogance, to be kings of the world.”
― Marie Tierney, Deadly Animals

“My throat starts to dry up right after and I feel my heart racing and that stupid lump forming in my throat again, the one I always have to swallow. And besides that, there's so much guilt; it's like a tsunami that washes over the shore and when it recedes, you're left with nothing at all. It's not fair, I want to shout. It's not fair that I have to feel so horrible and I can't even feel horrible because my brain tells me it's wrong and I'm selfish and I feel disgusting.”
― Loridee De Villa, How to Be the Best Third Wheel

“Death is evil. So the gods decided.
Otherwise they would die.”
― Sappho, The Complete Poems of Sappho