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I didn’t understand how hurtful it could be to say yes just because you weren’t sure how to say no.
When something comes to you so easily, it may leave that same way, and you’ll be left wondering if it ever was at all.
It’s funny—an incident that feels like a massive misstep as it’s happening often ends up as a footnote in your personal history, if you remember it at all. But a seemingly insignificant “should have” can turn out to be one of your biggest regrets.
But that’s a funeral for you; every lost life of your brief existence washes over you anew, with a fresh wave of loss added to that terrible sea of grief.
save for a few letters, the difference between love and loss was so slight it was almost impossible to perceive.
Love me when I’m at my worst. Love me when you don’t agree with me, and when this no longer feels new and surprising. Love me through it all.”
Once you love someone all the way, you love them forever. That’s just how it goes.”
As far as I’m concerned, forever is the worst long time. At least with adversity and illness, there’s a general idea of what to expect. We don’t know a damn thing about the uncharted horrors of eternity.
Death is nothing if not a reminder that no matter how long it may be, life is always too short.
“I needed you to keep seeing me as something better than I was.
Every event is different to those who have lived it, those who have witnessed it, and those who only later read of it.
“A book, too, can be a star . . . a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
You get obsessed with the perfect—not because it’s perfect, but because if you can’t have it, you don’t actually have to try.”
Each story is different. Every story ends with loss.
