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For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. ~ Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene III
It’s effortless to be revolted by a man whose face is as ugly as his soul, but when evil is dressed up in such a pretty package, it’s not quite as easy to resist.
“If you can influence him to stop him from doing something bad, even one thing, you have an obligation to do it.”
“You’re not your mother. Or your father. You’re you, not the sum of their parts. Let that shit go.”
Letting go is what I’ve been trying to do my whole life. But a person’s life history isn’t a butterfly’s cocoon or a snake’s dead, outgrown skin. We can’t walk away from it. We carry our history around in our hearts and our memories and deep within our bones. It’s alive and well, circulating in our bloodstreams.
Our pasts know exactly who we are, even when we don’t. Or don’t ...
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Fate is as real as…well, as love. Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. All the most important things in life are invisible.”
“You don’t have to believe in something for it to be true. Just because you have an opinion doesn’t mean it’s right.”
“Life is short. You don’t get a do-over. Kiss who you need to kiss, love who you need to love, tell anyone who disrespects you to go fuck themselves. Let your heart lead you where it wants to. Don’t ever make a decision based on fear. In fact, if it scares you, that’s the thing you should run fastest toward, because that’s where real life is. In the scary parts. In the messy parts. In the parts that aren’t so pretty. Dive in and take a swim in all the pain and beauty that life has to offer, so that at the end of it, you don’t have any regrets.
“We only come this way once. Our obligation for receiving the miraculous gift of life is to truly, fully live it.”
“I like you the way Newton liked gravity. Once he found it, everything else made sense.”
And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.’”
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee The more I have, for both are infinite.
