“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“'Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You'll never get me. That's the whole point.'”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Love, Understanding The Opposite Sex, Understanding Love, Understanding Life
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”Tagged: Falling Apart, Mental Illness, Pain, hurt, Losing Yourself
“I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love.”Tagged: Instant, Death, Quickness, Quickness Of Death, Explaining Death
“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go…”Tagged: Instant, Death, Quickness, Quickness Of Death, Explaining Death
“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice…”Tagged: Instant, Death, Quickness, Quickness Of Death, Explaining Death
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”Tagged: Living In The Future, Looking Ahead, Not Living In The Moment, Stuck, Feeling Stuck
“We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin…”Tagged: teenagers, Invincibile, Invincibility, Being A Teenager, Life
“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are.”Tagged: teenagers, Invincibile, Invincibility, Being A Teenager, Life
“I realized the importance of curves, of the thousand places where girls' bodies ease from one place to another, from arc of the foot to ankle to calf, from calf to hip to waist to breast to neck to ski-slope nose to forehead to shoulder to the concave arch of the back to the butt to the etc. I'd…”Tagged: Girls, Curves, Girls With Curves, Appreciation Of The Female Body, Female Body
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was…”Tagged: Love, Looking At Her, Sleeping, Innocence, Crush
“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”Tagged: Passionate People, Intense People, Living With Intensity, Longing To Be Someone Else