“I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.”
― Message in a Bottle
― Message in a Bottle
“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Invisible Monsters
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Invisible Monsters
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