Raisa Teeuw’s Reviews > Notes on Heartbreak > Status Update

“Perhaps no one ever forgets anyone. We keep parts of them inside us forever and they come out in the moments we need them. Like ghosts who can’t find their way to the afterlife.”

“You have to take control sometimes because it doesn’t make it easier that you’re easy-going, it makes it tiring for other people to always have to take charge.”

“This is the central paradox of love: It longs for closeness but the more you achieve it, the less you value what you’re attaching yourself to.”

“I can’t stop thinking about how there’s no one there to know that I’ve gone for a bath, or a walk, and as a result the act of doing one of these things, anything, starts to feel completely pointless.”

“I’m sick of myself and all the people I meet who are similar to me. So I ask about him again.”

“All day I’d soak up as many interesting things as possible from my quiet streets to tell you about.”

“It makes me sad thinking that the bad could replace the good. That the only way we get over things is to imagine they were less than they were.”

“You and a girl called Esme smoked and talked about friends of friends in West London. ‘Such a small world!’ Maybe your world is just small? I thought, but didn’t say.”

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