Status Updates From We Deserve Monuments

”You’re going to run yourself ragged if you don’t stop and look around and breathe sometimes. You can’t get to know yourself if you can’t sit with yourself for a while.”
Thanks dad

‘I didn’t know how to tell him my whole life had felt urgent up until this point. And how could it not? - - every summer was the hottest on record. The pandemic paused a majority of my high school years, and I’d been convinced the only way to make it up was go, go, go full steam ahead. Life was short. Everything was urgent, and who had time to breathe in all that?’
I feel mun 14-year-old self täs nii paljo

”So many ifs.”
”And you can’t make a life outta a bunch of ifs.”
Thank u mama letty

I was beginning to love everything she claimed to hate about it. - - I liked how the small city felt manageable. Predicable. Peaceful. After years of college prep and bustling DC streets and jam-packed school schedules, being in Bardell felt like taking the biggest breath I’d taken in years.
: Dundalk.

”there’s so much more to life than dating.” ”There’s art and books and movies and bowling and swimming and dancing and eating and traveling and museums-” ”We’re seventeen. Why tie yourself down to someone else who also has no idea who they are?”
Confirmation et vaik noit kaikkii ois kiva tehä sen jonkun kaa nii se on hyvä nyt vaa nauttii niist kavereiden kaa et se joku tulee mukaan sit ku on aika