“I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. I still did not know her as I wanted to, but I never could. She made it impossible for me.”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Understanding Death, After Death, Love, Love After Death
“More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Understanding Death, After Death, Love, Love After Death
“Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left…”Tagged: Who We Are, Defining Ourselves, humanity, Trying To Understand, Trying To Understand Death
“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
“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