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“Saying how you should feel is counterproductive to dealing with how you do feel.”
They look like something mass-produced with an expiration date of never.
“It’s not about doing what people want you to do. It’s about giving people what they need.”
“It’s macaroni and cheese, Z, not an orgasm.”
How, if we don’t have food and water, we can’t feel safe, and if we can’t feel safe then we can’t feel loved, and if we can’t feel loved then we can’t have self-esteem, and if we can’t feel self-esteem then we can never have full self-actualization.
It was easy with Coop because he made me feel nothing. I’m a rag doll with him. But with Grover, it’s as if every one of my senses lights up.
I get jumbled just thinking about Grover and his colorful feelings mixing with mine. They could potentially make a rainbow or they could make a large mess of brown.
Sometimes people are lost because they’re too afraid to look at the path. Sometimes people avoid the road for fear of what might be on it. It’s easier to stand in the shadows and watch.
“You can’t lose something you don’t want to begin with. She just gave up.”
“And everything’s all right?” she asks. “No.” I smile. “Everything will never be all right. But maybe that’s the point.”
“Let the world know who you are today. For today is all we have. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never happen.”
But if all of life turns into a memory the moment after it happens, all we really have are our thoughts.
“We pray to Saint Anthony that the lost be found. That the soul be free. That life be everlasting.”
I wish him a real life for the rest of his life, the ugly and all. Because reality might be ugly, but sometimes we can be broken and beautiful.
