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I didn’t want this town or the people in it.
But it was his words, his tongue, that had damaged me so much deeper.
twist the knife,
'all this sympathy is just a knife'
“Dead people?” “Fuck right off!”
999 already dialed.
NO???
“Think he’ll represent me, too?” Gibsie asked. Shrugging, he added, “When you’re embarking on hell, it’s always good to have a buddy.”
“It’s been a while.”
mixed feelings
He left. We stayed. His life improved. Ours worsened. End of story.
Whatever I used to be, he beat it out of me a long time ago.”
“I’m already on the way.”
“And you all just…buried it.”
ntm on joey :(
I try!
'at least im trying'
Because I kept thinking, no…no, this guy loves his sister. He wouldn’t stand by and let anything happen to her.”
big fuck you johnny
I hoped Tadhg, Ollie, and Sean found the Easter eggs in my school bag on Easter Sunday.
“You don’t want to be with me anymore?”
NO BITCH??
You were the grown-up. You were our mother.
“Took me forever to get back to you.”
I’m here, I’m in, I care, and I’m not going the fuck away.”
I keep thinking what if I’m wrong about her? What if I’m wrong to think badly of her?”
“I made it worse for you,” he choked out. “You made it bearable,” I whispered.
Because for the very first time he kissed me first.
“Drive him away and the answer will be never again.”
Common sense should have told her all that.
clock her shit shannon omg
“Fixing it,”
“Stop the world,” Gibsie groaned. “I want to get off.”
arctic monkeys mention
“I’m growing fond of your trouble.”
“Joey doesn’t talk. Not to anyone. Not even me.
“Not until you’ve been in my shoes. Seen what I’ve seen. Heard what I’ve heard.”
“It’s not your fault,”
“You are not responsible for your father’s actions,”
“He can figure it all out because I’m done. I c-can’t f-fucking—”
:(
“You’re one hell of a mother, Joey the hurler.”
So this is their life,
“Don’t ask for my permission, Shannon. You don’t need it.”
it was hard to break the habit of a lifetime.
“I want you to stay with me.”
I would much prefer to be alone than to be with people purely because they pitied my circumstances.
“I’m not going anywhere.”
“If you had a million quid in your arse pocket, I wouldn’t have you pay for me,”
“Love, Actually?”
fire movie
“He was going through his Keira Knightley phase at the time and was so pissed when he realized how little she appears in this.”
clock it!!!
I wanted to kiss her, but I didn’t know if she wanted me to, and that was a problem for me.
so there's this wonderful thing called communication...
fear of the unknown.
"do you know i could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, i stll carry for you"
Strong words for a person my age, but I trusted my instincts and my gut.
jean-clad knee,
my poor girl has been in jeans this whole timeeee??
“You show up and all the bad just…goes away for a little while.”
“And that’s awful because it puts pressure on you.”
i see a lot of myself in shannon
