Kindle Notes & Highlights
You know that expression, ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’? People always forget the second part, which goes, ‘But it burned in one.’ And that was us, thousands of years in the making, months in the undoing.
And it was our proximity that caused all the pain, forcing you to watch people you loved - partners, family, friends, even children… Fall. So fuck proximity. I can’t think of anything more dangerous.
Because we lived in a culture that told us we were all so bloody singular and that we mattered and that we all had some special hand guiding us to our future. And we gobbled up these ridiculous stories greedily. We felt protected by every lie.
‘You’re scared of me getting closer to you? Why? I’m not gonna attack you’ she said with a wry smile. And then the smile faded. ‘Maybe you’re afraid I’m coming closer for another reason?’
I was shocked to find that my heart was still there to be broken.