Emily > Recent Status Updates

The author loves to describe things in 3s that's for sure

"It's hard to see who I am when I am lost in what's expected of me."

"But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die."

To be a woman was to watch yourself not just through your own eyes but through the eyes of others.

This is actually really scary omg they need to make this a movie asap

"Maybe independence is just the flag we wave to distract from the pain of being alone."

"Fate is just another invention to trick us into complacency. Inaction. If one assumes that they cannot change their circumstances, they won't try. When you think about it, really there's a myriad of ways we're conditioned to passivity. Women, especially. Of course, I realized all of this a long, long time ago. It saved me. It could have just as easily drowned me."

"We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late."

"It's strange, don't you think, the way we attach to people. The way our best intentions are cast aside, and the seed gets deeper into the soil of us than we planned and their place in our lives grow roots. I don't think we're supposed to love people lightly. I don't think we're supposed to love them a little bit and move on."

I'm hoping this is a palate cleanser after the dense one I just read

This is so bad worst book of the year it's so boring and the chapters are so long

I love tairn lol

Chapters are so long and there's literally nothing going on this whole time. How are we still setting the scene @ 20%?

"Isn't it strange how the world works sometimes? It's never a matter of time, but a matter of timing"

"You never commit a mundane moment to memory, thinking it'll be the last time you'll hear their voice, or see their smile, or smell their perfume. Your head never remembers the things your heart wants to in hindsight."

"You can plan everything in your life, and you'll still be taken by surprise."

"We can't and don't know what others are thinking. We can't and don't know what motivations people have for doing the things they do. Ever. Not entirely. This was my terrifying, youthful epiphany. We just never really know anyone. I don't. Neither do you."

"I think a lot of what we learn about others isn't what they tell us. It's what we observe. People can tell us anything they want."

"Some people are who you think they are. Some people hide the wolf inside of them, but you can hear them howl."