melody

“(And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.)”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“I tell myself, Feel this. Feel every last terrible, uncomfortable, overwhelming part of it. You have to feel it to get to the other side.”
― Jennifer Niven, Breathless

“I felt part of a world that was so large and so strange I could never understand it, and that was okay. I was happy to give myself up to it.”
― Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

“There are moments like this when I allow myself to see the beauty I’d always foreclosed to myself. Part of me thinks that my ability to see it when I do is inseparable from the pain I feel, and when I think that, the pain suddenly isn’t so bad. The sun’s going to come up in the morning. I really don’t like myself a lot of the time, but sometimes I look back at the words I’ve written on my blog and elsewhere and I kind of smile at my own bullshit. I’ll grow up, and then I will come back to them again. It’s fine. I will be fine. There is a spastic firelight in everything. The trick is knowing where to find it.”
― Nash Jenkins, Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos