“Normal people say, I can’t imagine feeling so bad I’d genuinely want to die. I do not try and explain that it isn’t that you want to die. It is that you know you are not supposed to be alive, feeling a tiredness that powders your bones, a tiredness with so much fear. The unnatural fact of living is something you must eventually fix.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“The small cardboard sign said Spider ?-2011 in her best writing.
Millie ran her fingers over the line in between the question mark and Spider's death-year. Back and forth, back and forth. It was strange, she thought, that this line - this long, straight line - was all there was to show of his whole life.”
― Lost & Found
Millie ran her fingers over the line in between the question mark and Spider's death-year. Back and forth, back and forth. It was strange, she thought, that this line - this long, straight line - was all there was to show of his whole life.”
― Lost & Found
“She runs her fingers through the air, and it feels like nothing, but it's keeping everyone alive.
How can that feel like nothing?”
― Lost & Found
How can that feel like nothing?”
― Lost & Found
“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“People can only be as good as they are, no matter how much they love you.”
― Inside Out
― Inside Out
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