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A real best friend would use a lot of words to make you feel somewhat good about your life when you’re thinking about ending it.
There are stacks of unread comics on my side of the room. I bought a lot of them for cheap, like between seventy-five cents and two dollars at my favorite comic shop, without any real intention to read them from start to finish.
Excuse me, did I just get attacked by this book on the 6th page???
I trace the smiling scar, left to right and right to left, happy to have it as a reminder not to be such a dumbass again.
It’s easy to forget it’s there when it’s not glowing, until all of a sudden it comes back and surprises you; it reminds me of grief.
I fake-smile because everyone wants happiness for me as much as I want it for myself.
I guess you can quit whatever you want. You know, as long as you’re not quitting something or someone that’s a good fit for you.”
“You don’t need dickheads like that in your life anyway. They slow you down.”
“Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it’ll be okay eventually.
you can’t always choose who you’re going to be. Sometimes you’re fast enough to run track. Sometimes you’re not.”
I wish my existence were as simple as being set on fire and exploding in the sky.
“I think it’s okay for you to be confused by things right now, Thomas. We’re young and figuring shit out, but our lives don’t completely suck.
Sometimes you just have to push ahead to find what you’re looking for.”
the best liars are the ones who fool you by claiming they never lie at all.
Happiness shouldn’t be this hard.
I have said it before and I’ll say it always, but I’ll love you however you are.
I sink against the wall, wondering where the fuck my place is in this fucking universe that fucked me over.
It’s way past my bedtime but I can’t sleep because of a really real nightmare—myself.
No one fucking does the right thing.
This is one of those times where you swear you have to be sleeping and living a nightmare because it’s so impossible that your life can only be a string of bad things until you’re completely abandoned.
The memories are still rattling around my head, twisting into me like a knife.
It was a dead end and I kept trying to go forward.” And we crashed because of me.
You don’t get to keep ignoring the past because you don’t like it.”
You move on, you have to—but you don’t write someone out.”
Memories: some can be sucker punching, others carry you forward; some stay with you forever, others you forget on your own. You can’t really know which ones you’ll survive if you don’t stay on the battlefield, bad times shooting at you like bullets. But if you’re lucky, you’ll have plenty of good times to shield you.
happiness comes again if you let it.
Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.
even though I never chose this, I can choose to accept it before it’s too late.
It’s okay how some stories leave off without an ending. Life doesn’t always deliver the one you would expect.
You’ve already experienced so much bullshit so you can always look back on how things could be worse. That’s my two cents.”
If the blind can find joy in music, and the deaf can discover it with colors, I will do my best to always find the sun in the darkness because my life isn’t one sad ending—it’s a series of endless happy beginnings.
While we can’t always engineer our own happy endings, we can learn how to be more happy than not with the cards we’ve been dealt.
