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Purple is such a twisted, complex color—it conveys the passion of red, the sadness of blue, the depravity of black. Purple is neither happy nor sad. It is pain and despair but longing, too—fiery desire, beaten and bruised but struggling onward, determined to overcome, to move forward rather than retreat.
What is a lie? It’s a distortion of reality, presented as reality.
But to be the best, to reach the pinnacle, requires self-denial, sacrifice, discipline, humility, and preparation.
You must do today what nobody else will do, so tomorrow you can accomplish what others can’t.
A teacher once told me that if you add any number’s digits and get a sum that is divisible by three, then that original number is divisible by three, too. Never again did I look at a number without running that equation in my head. The address 1535 Linscott became 1 + 5 + 3 + 5 = 14, which is not divisible by three, thus 1535 is not, either. License plate KLT 438 became 4 + 3 + 8 = 15, which is divisible by three, and thus so was 438.
He was the anchor in the water, while you rocked up and down on the waves.
You don’t share those thoughts because you’re afraid your extremes will define you, that people will let those little nuggets overpower everything else they know about you, that finely honed image you’ve constructed. So you hide. You put on a mask. But don’t you see? Nobody can really know you unless they know your extremes. If all they know is the gooey, creamy center and not the ragged edges, the outer reaches of your personality, then they have an incomplete picture, a series of snapshots.
“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.” “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
I’m a girl standing in a tornado, pretending like it isn’t even windy,
You find that other piece that matches yours, that completes yours, and you make the jags and the crevices fit, even if they don’t go in perfectly smoothly, even if they require a few adjustments. You don’t demand perfection. You make it work and appreciate the parts that fit instead of obsessing over the small angles that don’t.
