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If you watched enough horrible things happen on-screen, you could figure out how to avoid them in real life.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt I
No matter how well you know the rules, no matter how smart you think you are, you’re never prepared for your life to turn into a horror movie.
When am I going to stop being surprised by all the things I’ve lost, all the things that suck now that never sucked before?
automatically. I don’t have even the slightest idea what “okay” feels like anymore, but I’m going to keep moving and thinking and talking, and I guess that’s close enough.
It seems impossible that she was ever like this, a constantly moving, changing person. For the last year, she’s existed only in my imagination,
It’s crazy how much you forget about a person when you don’t see them every day. All the little details that make up who they were drip out of your head like water falling though cupped hands.
Maybe the lesson here is that it doesn’t matter how many times you rewind, there’s always something you’re going to regret.
Suddenly I have the sensation of trying to hold water in my cupped hands only to watch it stream out through my fingers. Secrets are like that. It’s impossible to keep them from getting out.
