“When we miss someone, often, what we really miss is the part of us that with this someone awakens.”
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“It’s hard to say exactly how the pain shapes my days; it is as variable as the weather, as tomatoes, as a child. Sometimes it finds me with the first turn in bed; sometimes only after too long at a party; sometimes it is all that I am—my truest self—and other times I only recognize it on the faces and stoops of others enough to say its name. Pain—you are a cipher as well.”
― The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
― The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
“so many things i need to work on
so many fucking things i need to change”
― A Beautiful Composition of Broken
so many fucking things i need to change”
― A Beautiful Composition of Broken
“My point is that first loves always make sense because you don’t know any better. Everything is a first and any warning bells are drowned out by the sheer novelty of it all.”
― See Me
― See Me
“Of course they all remember; of course it is not only me, trying to both preserve and crack open the lie that time doesn’t pass, that loss isn’t a blade so sharp that it can make you bleed long before you ever feel the sting.”
― The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
― The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
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