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Reality is a whole lot more complicated.
“We all have choices,” he says. “Some are just harder to make than others.”
None of us are really normal. We’re all just strange pieces in the world.
I don’t understand why bad shit has to happen to people with good intentions.
Making mistakes and correcting them, that’s life.”
“I wish people were nicer,”
Freedom doesn’t come with age. It doesn’t magically appear when you’re a legal adult. It comes when you stand up for what you believe in.
How do other eighteen-year-olds solidify their dreams and career paths right before college? How is it possible to know what you’re good at and what you love so young? What if you never find out? What if you spend a lifetime searching with no real answer in the end? The future is depressing.
“You are your own anchor, Ryke. When you fail, you hurt yourself more than anyone else. Do you want to keep burning or are you going to let yourself rise?”
“Because when you find something you love, you can’t quit. Every failure pushes you harder. It’s in your soul and in your fucking heart.”
“I love you more than chocolate cake.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Beginnings are the hardest because they’re the parts that pull people in, that make them want the ends. And endings are the most painful, the parts that can leave you bleeding out.
