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“I hate to say it, but shit really does happen. You just have to get over it. Beat the hell out of it by doing things that make you happy.”
What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?
The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems; we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of people’s and I really have no right to whine at all.
Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start to feel like you’re going crazy.
I learned a long time ago that it’s my future and my life and I can’t make myself live the way someone else wants me to live.
Things always change when someone you love dies. You just can’t prepare yourself for those changes no matter what you do in advance.
“He told me that a real fighter never cries, never lets the weight of any blow bring him down. Except that final blow, the inevitable one, but even then they always go out like men.”
“You dwell on the past, you can’t move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you stay stagnant in the same place all your life.”
One of the worst feelings in the world is being unable to cry and eventually it… starts to make things darker.”
“What you wear really doesn’t matter much,” he says, walking back to the closet. “All that matters is where you’re going and what you’re doing while you’re wearing it.”
“You either are, or you aren’t.”
“Just because one person’s problem is less traumatic than another’s doesn’t mean they’re required to hurt less.”
“I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experience and delusions.”
“It’s better to shun emotion than to fall for it and let it make you its bitch—and since nothing lasts forever, in the end everything that was once good, always hurts like hell.”
Never hold back, Camryn Bennett; be sure to do what you want in life, say what you feel and never be afraid to be yourself. Fuck what everybody else thinks. You’re living for you, not them.
The heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.
Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.
“But isn’t that one reason why we’re doing it? Because it’s not normal?”
Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it’s what makes being a best friend official.
Just remember to always be yourself and don’t be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud.
But fate is cruel, and if Fate were standing in front of me right now I’d kick him in the fucking nuts.
