The Boy Who Loved Wicked

by C.P. Harris

“‘Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.’”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” ~Socrates

“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.” ~Plato

“‘The unexamined life is not worth living,’”

“‘Once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves, but otherwise we never shall.’”

There were more than enough obstacles to assist with much of our avoidance. Remaining in a half-marriage for this length of time is not only possible, it’s common.”

“Love is a serious mental illness.” ~Plato

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” ~Plato

“She doesn’t know you. She doesn’t know that when you isolate yourself away it’s because you want someone to find you. She won’t find you, Sebastian.”

Sun. She had no idea how much that word terrified me. I didn’t want to be enlightened. I’d rather believe the shadowed fish on my wall was all there was to be had, than to learn that there were many more just like it in the sea.

“Sometimes, you’ve gotta let people live out their own choices even when you know it’s wrong. Sometimes, they need to see for themselves that it won’t work. They need to be able to say they tried.” She’d said it could be a dangerous thing to get in that way of that.

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like.” ~Socrates

Trying new things didn’t always mean that who you were before was wrong, or not the real you. It meant you could say with absolute certainty who you weren’t, because you’d tried.

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~Aristotle

Love wasn’t a single act, but a daily practice of the most mundane. The accumulation of the little things. It wasn’t about specific events, or the intensity. It came down to consistency, to working hard and exercising the heart daily even when we looked in the mirror and didn’t see the benefits, because love took time and patience. And things are most rewarding when we sweat to get them.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

When Sebastian got like this, he used his size against me, and I loved nothing more than feeling frail in his arms, but strong in his eyes.