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“Its okay, I tell her.It is okay to be happy”
“happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time”
“I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.”
“I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.”
“Whats the point of something virtual if it doesnt end up being real?”
“Its as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”
“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want...”
“I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.”
“It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”
“What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I suddenly realize why people believe in dj vu, why people believe they've lived past lives...”
“I wish she could see how it hits him. The look on his face, his life caving in. Because then maybe shed realize, if only for a split second, that even though the world doesnt matter to her, she mat...”
“Now that the day is almost done, the world of glass recedes, the butterfly threat diminishes. I imagine that we're both here in this bed, that my invisible body is nestled against hers. We are brea...”
“We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire ...”
“The past and future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple.”
“Breath and heat and contact and shirts off and skin on skin and smiles and murmurs and the enormity revealing itself in the tiniest of gestures, the most delicate sensations.”
“The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside”
“The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.”
“I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when th...”
“Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick,...”
“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”
“There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that hap...”
“Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. People tal...”
“Depression has been likened to both a black cloud and a black dog. For someone like Kelsea, the black cloud is the right metaphor. She is surrounded by it, immersed within it, and there is no obvio...”
