Everyone Knows You Go Home

by Natalia Sylvester

“When you’re dead, you sense all the things you missed when you were living. Moods, timing, a person’s state of mind. Not their thoughts,” he added quickly. “But in a way we’re more alive than we ever were before.”

sometimes our best intentions become our worst mistakes.”

I’m essentially living my life with a stranger I trust more than anyone in the world.” “It’s a beautiful trust.”

Do you know what keeps

Obviously this is supposed to be connected to the next note

the dead from really dying, Isabel? It’s just memory. Longing. Being held in the hearts of our loved ones.

“Plans are just silly attempts to control the tricks of time.”

where they could become lost but never mourned, or found but tossed back, turned away as if they had never arrived.

“Just because you have no choice doesn’t mean you’ll be able to live with the decision.”

And yet, she envied the young woman—a man needed only attempt to hurt her, and she didn’t hesitate to stop him.

What a fragile thing it was, to feel connected.

Omar could see her deflate. This was not an exhaustion you recover from, but the slow seeping away of a person so gently, it avoids detection until there’s nothing left to take.

Grief is never really gone; it is just a darkness you eventually adjust to.

Life is shit, but it’s fucking beautiful.”