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I am a narcissist.
Narcissists dont think they are narcissists, hon
Charlie’s bike
Now shes stealing charlies stuff. First his room now his bike🙂↔️🙂↔️
know instantly that something has changed.
Yeah you like him
It’s weird how you see someone who smiles all the time and you assume that they’re happy all the time. It’s weird how someone is nice to you and you assume that they’re a wholly “good person.”
“Yes, Michael Holden. Tear that fucking paper.”
Id be so thrown off if someone said this to me😭😭
“Do you get angry a lot?” I say. “I’m always angry,” he says.
Hes.... the hulk?!?!?!
“Happiness,” he says, “is the price of profound thought.”
the way his fingers are curled round my wrist, it’s like they were always supposed to do that, like they’re matching pieces in a jigsaw.
Awwwwww
“Please dance with me,” he says. “I know that dancing is awkward and outdated, and I know that you don’t like doing stuff like that and, if I’m honest, neither do I, and I know that the night isn’t going to last very long and soon everyone will just go home back to their laptops and their empty beds, and we’ll probably be alone tomorrow,
Ahhhhhh kiss that man rn
I love snow. Snow can make anything beautiful.
Becky has betrayed me. Because she doesn’t care.
Omg
I’m your naive little friend whose sad little life makes you feel better about yourself.
Tell her!!!!!
“I’m sorry—do you have any comprehension of the level of betrayal you have just reached? Do you have any concept of friendship? I didn’t think it was possible for someone to be that selfish, but clearly I’ve been wrong all this time.”
You tell her!!!!!!!!
At our meetup tonight, there is a Higgs Year 12 named Ben Hope who has deliberately injured a Truham Year 11.
Omg omg omg
Two boys hold Ben Hope while several others hurl punches and kicks at him.
Not that he doesnt deserve it but damn
this were a film, I would be there, I would be the hero stopping this false justice. But this isn’t a film. I am not the hero.
I don’t think that there was a particular reason for the crying. I think that was just his personality.
“If you go on acknowledging that you hate it, you’re never going to want to be here. You can’t give up on it. You can’t be defeatist about it.”
I’ve felt that not engaging can be just as bad as the alternative.
wife
A husband hopefully
“Girl’s got a weak stomach. Just like her brother.”
Now why would you say that…
It’s so easy to assume you know everything about a person.
I don’t want people to try and understand why I’m the way I am, because I should be the first person to understand that.
“Things certainly are a lot easier the fewer friends you have.”
friendship comes with a lot of benefits.”
You can’t always rely just on yourself, even though it can seem like an easier way to live.”
“Nothing’s going to change until you decide you want it to change.”
Whoever thought that January was a good month for a music festival was probably a sadist.
Youre right though
There comes a point, though, when you can’t keep looking after other people anymore. You have to start looking after yourself.
he hurt himself. And he wrote me this card afterwards, telling me he was really sorry and he didn’t mean it to happen.
Oh charlie😞
The fact that, like, all that time, I knew it was coming, but I didn’t do anything. I didn’t even say anything to anyone about it, because I thought I’d been imagining it.”
Omg im crying
start to mumble deliriously. “We’ll kill ourselves. We’re both killing ourselves.”
“Tori Spring, I have been looking for you forever.”
Awwwwww
“We’re so used to disaster that we accept it. We think we deserve it.”
“I don’t think anyone deserves disaster. I think a lot of people wish for disaster because it’s the only thing left with the power to turn heads.”
Obviously, Charlie tells Mum and Dad.
Obviously
“Look, I’m not going to apologize, yeah? I wasn’t in the wrong.”
What do you mean you werent in the wrong!?!?!
wonder whether she dislikes me as much as I dislike her.
I just feel like they didnt care about tori in the first place
“I also found out that approximately one hundred billion people have died since the world began. Did you know that? One hundred billion. It’s a big number, but it still doesn’t seem like quite enough.”
Interesting
Split between the green and the blue, there is an indefinable beauty that people call humanity.
I hadn’t realized I was crying. I don’t really feel sad. I don’t really feel anything.
Depression
he gets up
What?
I realize that I know his number by heart.
“Extraordinary is only an extension of ordinary,”
a kind of raw gratitude, as if me going with him was the only thing that mattered.
I begin to wonder how Michael can so easily make something wonderful out of something cold, and then I begin to wonder whether lots of people are like this, and I begin to wonder whether, if I weren’t so busy thinking about other things, I would be like this.
“Do you think that, if we were happy for our entire lives, we would die feeling like we’d missed out on something?”
You be honest or you shut the fuck up. Dropping little hints and then hiding is literally the worst thing you could do.”
“To be honest, I think it’s just a defense mechanism.”
the Solitaire party
Omg hes behind it
