Sometimes our heroes let us down.
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers.
“Is there such a thing as being too happy?”
“Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.”
“Thats what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.”
“When youre in the wild, theres nothing to hide behind. No bars or credit cards or movie theatres or cell phones or credentials or security. Youre just alone with yourself. You look around and lose ...”
“Her eyes remind me of the Pacific: Raging. Fearless. Restless.”
“Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they arent there.”
“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only ...”
“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume tha...”
“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”
“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that prec...”
“I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.”
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone wont either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are...”
“Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you”