Lee

“Opportunities don’t fall in your lap because you want them to. You have to work to make them happen.”
― Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

“The most terrible loneliness is not the kind that comes from being alone, but the kind that comes from being misunderstood. It is the loneliness of standing in a crowded room, surrounded by people who do not see you, who do not hear you, who do not know the true essence of who you are. And in that loneliness, you feel as though you are fading, disappearing into the background, until you are nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of your former self.”
― George Orwell

“But I take strange comfort in these waves of heartache. They’re like annotations in a book, a note in the margin that reads, This is important.”
― Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

“And this death is not just mine. We are all always dying. The brief movement of time that keeps us from the void is dreamy incoherence. As we leap, it's not so much perhaps that we're flung out among the dead-whom we imagine as being far from us — as that we're hurled beyond. The woman I embrace is dying, and this infinite destruction of individual existences, incessantly flowing, incessantly escaping beyond them, is ME!”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche