Status Updates From Slanting Towards the Sea

“If there is certainty that I will invest in this and end up disillusioned and scarred, would the journey still not be worth it?”

i genuinely get her

the vibesssss between these three r sooooooo strange

“It’s not that he’s mad at me, I can feel as much. It’s that I’ve mirrored back a version of him he doesn’t want to see. To accept that you were wrong about something isn’t only to accept the mistake itself. It’s accepting each time you acted on that false belief.”

this author genuinely has me in love w her v clear emotional intelligence

Aww

“I mull over what Marina said, and the decisions I made…Decisions I felt forced, even coerced into for the greater good. For the first time, they reveal themselves to me for what they were. Choices. My choices. Because even conceding to someone else’s wishes, giving in to meet someone else’s needs—even sacrificing yourself—is a choice.”