Tilly in Technicolor Quotes

“But, if ADHD has made me an expert in anything, it’s avoidance, and I am pretending not to see my problems like a champ. Sure, the problems nag and gnaw at the back of my mind, slowly devouring me until I’m nothing but a flesh bag of subconscious anxiety, but it’s better than actively sending myself into a meltdown by imagining literally every single rancid potential outcome.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“I’m the tide and she’s the moon; I go wherever she wants me.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“Couples that stim together stay together.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“A hundred good ideas or absolutely none, you add value just by being you.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“the start of liking someone can be so overwhelming it feels a bit like you're dying. But that's only because you're on the precipice of really living”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“I love you without conditions. Without expectations.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“I'd rather give it my all and come up short than not try at all.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“This is my future. My now. This moment. in a blink, will be my past.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“But, if ADHD has made me an expert in anything, it’s avoidance, and I am pretending not to see my problems like a champ.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“When I was told I have ADHD, it was like a map had been handed to me, showing the path of my circuit boards and looping wires.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“Every interaction I have feels like I’ve randomly showed up at some theater, am told I’m the lead in a play, then am shoved onto the stage. Everyone else got a script and knows what to say, and I’m somehow supposed to know the lines, without even knowing the plot. It’s a nightmare.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“Screw the moon, I want someone to look at me like I hung the damn sun.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“There isn’t a person out there who knows me. Who I truly am. Who I want to be. I’ve never had that special connection where I’m understood. It always feels like there’s a curtain between me and any person I’m talking to, and I worry I’ll always feel this separation from the world. Like I’m an extra piece to a jigsaw puzzle, discarded and forgotten under the couch, while everyone else clicks with their matching corners.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“I’ve always had trouble relating to my peers, saying or doing the wrong thing no matter how hard I tried to be like them—observing the way they interact with each other and trying to mimic it with very little success. It’s exhausting trying to make friends while pretending to be someone you’re not.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“...all of our energy is drained from the endless sunshine, replaced by a lovely, heavy calmness.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“Word vomit is generally ~my~ thing”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“I'm proud of you for just being you”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“ADHD hasn't changed me...It is me. It's an undeniable and simple fact of who I am." - Tilly”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“The sky wishes it could be as lovely as Tilly Twomley.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“I snap a picture of the large poster at the start of the exhibit that details the immersive color and pigment experience, then send it to Marcus. sorry but I’ve officially replaced you as my best friend Marcus’s reply is almost instant. This is a lovely message to get after you’ve ghosted me most of the summer Who’s the poor soul? I grin at my screen. Marcus really is my best mate.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“Oh my God, kissing is great. Amazing. Huge fan of kissing. Cannot recommend enough.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“Oliver,” I whisper. “Please, please don’t make me acknowledge that I just spoke out loud.” This time, it’s not a tap. Oliver gently lays his palm across my back. Okay, now I’m really not breathing. I feel him spread his fingers wider, brushing the edges of my shoulder blades. “I—” Ollie clears his throat. “I want to touch you, too.” My eyes shoot open. Excuse me, what?”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“Tilly.” He says my name softly. Reverently. “A hundred good ideas or absolutely none, you add value just by being you.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“Well, Tilly, you’re as luminous as they come. Your value doesn’t change based on an idea you have or what you offer people. It just is. And it’s wonderful.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“I stand there, staring, forgetting that I’m supposed to be doing anything but looking at the graceful lines of her fingers, the way the light slopes up her arms and kisses her cheeks. She’s . . . she’s . . . Tilly is everything.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“she looks over her shoulder and gives me one of those grins that Shakespeare probably would have written an entire book of sonnets about.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“The gentlest glow of pink warms the spots I touch. Pantone 12–1305, Heavenly Pink. All of a sudden, I’m convinced the color was named only after Tilly gifted it to the world.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“I think we communicate differently,” I say. “And I want to learn your language. I want us to figure out how to talk to each other in the best ways possible.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“I think what makes me uncomfortable is how badly I want to touch you.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor

“Maybe it isn’t that I’ve been bad at conversations my whole life, but that I haven’t been having conversations with the right people.”
― Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor