Tara Oliver > Recent Status Updates

“The terror of not allowing myself to love her has beaten that fear of losing her. Everything is going to be alright. Or, if not, everything is going to be, so let’s not worry. And every moment lasts forever. It lives on. Somewhere. Somehow. There is only the present… every fragment of time contains aspects of every other.”

“Everything in life is uncertain. This is why we sometimes want to return to the past, because we know it, or we think we do. But, although you can gaze at the past, you can’t visit it.”
“History was - is - a one way street. You have to keep walking forward. But you don’t always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.”

“You cannot know the future. You look at the news and it looks terrifying. But you can never be sure. That is the whole thing with the future. You don’t know. At some point you have to accept that you don’t know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.”

“After all, we aren’t just who we are born. We are who we become. We are what life does to us.”

“We are mysteries to ourselves. Even science knows that. We have no fucking idea how our own minds work.”
“A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It’s sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can’t live your life in fear.”

“Love is where you find the meaning. Those seven years I was with her contained more than anything else. That’s the thing with time, isn’t it? It’s not all the same. Some days- some decades -are empty. There is nothing to them. It’s just flat water. And then you come across a year, or even a day, or an afternoon. And it is everything. It is the whole thing.”

“People you love never die.”

“as if a part of us is contained in every book we’ve loved.”

“There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.”

“All we can do is observe the pattern, the rhythm, and then live it.”

“It may seem strange, falling in love with someone because of a gesture, but sometimes you can read an entire person in a single moment.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
“Voids were empty of love but also pain. Emptiness is not without its advantages. You could move around in emptiness.”

“I will not be truly alive without you. I will be a ghost that breathes.”
“I wish I could have taken those days and spread them out for ever. One afternoon with them a month for the rest of my life.”

“People like, occasionally, to see human life as a generally smooth upwardly sloping line towards enlightenment and knowledge and tolerance, but I have to say that has never been my experience. The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition are things that can rise up, inside almost anyone, at any moment.”

“It is strange how close the past is, even when you imagine it to be so far away. Strange how it can just jump out of a sentence and hit you. Strange how every object or word can house a ghost. The past is not one separate place. It is many, many places, and they are always ready to rise into the present.”

“What we are and what we mean are different things. It’s fine. The world makes it very hard not to be a prick.”

“I sometimes want to stop time. I sometimes want, in a happy moment, for a church bell to never to ring again. But we are all at the mercy of time. We are all the strings, aren’t we? We are all the strings.”

“I am not sure I have ever met someone like you, That is good. What point would my life have, if there was a duplicate.”

“Everything changes and nothing changes.”

“All you can do with the past is carry it around, feeling its weight slowly increase, praying it never crushes you completely.”

“Other animals don’t have progress, they say. But the human mind itself doesn’t progress. We keep trying to separate ourselves from the universe we live in.”

“The longer you live, the more you realize that nothing is fixed. Everyone will become a refugee if they live long enough. Everyone would realize their nationality means little in the long run. Everyone would see their worldviews challenged and disproved. Everyone would realize that the thing that defines a human being is being a human.”