Tiny: maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. it's gonna hurt. it's gonna hurt because it matters.
Simon: that's disgusting!me: what's disgusting?simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.
I think the idea of a 'mental health day' is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health. the idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four...
You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.
You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.
You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.
Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.
The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones,...
The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what...
It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.
I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.
Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation midsentence. I would le...
Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.
Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard.
And I find myself saying, It wasn’t really about her. And finding it’s true.What do you mean? Norah asks.It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about...
.The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes.Accept this. W...
.Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can co...
.I want to take back at least half of the I love yous, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones. I want to take back the book of artsy photos I gave you, because you didn’t get it and said...
.I love the vagueness of words that involve time. 'It took him awhile to come back' -- it could be a matter of minutes or hours, days or years. It is easy for me to say it took me awhile to know. That...
And At the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.