- "Your depression shows when you talk about home. You said, 'I can't wait to leave this town and go away on my own'."
- "I'm not afraid to watch you change me."
- "I don't need another friend when most of them, I can barely keep up with them. Perfectly able to hold my own hand, but I still can't kiss my own neck."
- "Even if things end up a bit too heavy, we'll all float on."
- "I thought I heard a plane crashing, but now I think it was your passion snapping."
- "It’s hard trying to hold on with all that I have lost. It all seems so wrong, but I trust you, oh God."
- "The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others."
- "Somebody said that life isn't fair when somebody else was saying a prayer."
- "Take me to a place where I don't know anybody. Leave me alone for now. I've grown sick of every face that I've known. This keeps me up at night."
- "It's like you’re 18 years in with no way out and you’re the star of the story you don’t care about. Just a little girl in a bigger world turning upside-down. Well, don’t’ you throw it all away when no one’s here to pull you out."
- "Do you believe you're missing out, that everything good is happening somewhere else?"
- "She locks all the doors and turns, says, 'We will always be safe here in this bed'."
- "Sometimes I convince myself that all is fine in the world."
- "I remember in a basement sharing sweat with all these stranger boys and girls, 'We'll change the world' we sang, 'We'll change the world', but nothing seems to change and they say none of them will listen, but I still see much more power in that basement than in heartless politicians."
- "There's more to me that I have yet to find."
- "The summer's always lovely, but the winters always hurt."
- "So when you ask 'Is something wrong?', I think 'You're damn right there is, but we can't talk about it now.'"
- "You can’t trust everyone you meet. They won’t amount to anything."
- "So here’s my advice: hold on to whatever keeps you warm inside."
- "If there's nothing left to lose then there's every to gain."
- "The seasons have changed and so have we."
- "Remember not our faulty pieces, remember not our rusted parts. It’s not the petty imperfections that define us but the way we hold our hearts, and the way we hold our heads."
- "I hope the new grass you seek is greener than the greenest green."
- "But tell me now where was my fault, in loving you with my whole heart?"
- 'Cause lately I've been tired and uninspired."
- I remember when you leaned in quick to kiss me, and I swear, not a single force on earth could stop the trembling of my hand."
- "I think the thing is that I shut off from everything. From friends and family and my own ambitions. From having fun. I just shut off from everything. Self-defeating? Yeah, probably. But I don't know that I had total control over it. And I'm not sure it even matters why."
- "The world's got me dizzy again. You'd think after 22 years I'd be used to the spin."
- "I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence. Fear is such a weak emotion, that’s why I despise it. We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth. So scared of what you think of me, I’m scared of even telling you. Sometimes I’m like the only person I feel safe to tell it to."
- And my head told my heart, 'Let love grow'. But my heart told my head, 'This time no, this time no'."
- "What about your friends? Do they make you happy?"
- "Fuck California, it's just the safest place I know."
- "Tell me what your worst fears are. I bet they look a lot like mine. Tell me what you think about when you can't fall asleep at night. Tell me that you're struggling. Tell me that you're scared. No, tell me that you're terrified of life. Tell me that it's difficult to not think of death sometimes. Tell me how you lost. Tell me how he left. Tell me how she left. Tell me how you lost everything that you had. Tell me that it ain't ever coming back. Tell me about God. Tell me about love. Tell me that it's all of the above. Say you think of everything in fear. I bet you're not the only one who does."
- "I guess if I was simple in the mind, everything would be fine."
- And all the weight you carry will disappear."
- "I could stand here for hours just to ask God the question, 'Is everyone here make-believe?'."
- "I hate this time of year because it kills us all."
- "‘Cause lately I’m not dreaming, so what’s the point in sleeping?"
- "Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?"
- "This world can be ugly, but isn't it beautiful?"
- "And afterwards I swore that I would haunt you, now I'm way too tired to give a shit."
- "I'm not scared to die, I'm a little bit scared of what comes after. Do I get the gold chariot? Do I float through the ceiling? Do I divide and fall apart?"
- "There will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears, and love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears."
- "I try to keep sane, but this goddamn place is a freeway."
- "We won’t always keep around those we feel we need; some will fade in frames, some were born to leave. But if we’re still here, and we still breathe, at least we’ve still got time to figure it out. To know what to do, to know how to feel, know the things that I’ve been making up inside my head, and to know what’s real."
- In the end they'll judge me anyway, so whatever."
- "This world is such a fucked up place, my mind's such a fucked up shape."
- "I’ve spent this year as a ghost and I’m not sure where home is anymore."
- "You ever get the feeling that everything you do your whole life is one big crock of shit?"
- "Where were you when everything was falling apart?"
- "I'm not as sad as I let myself believe sometimes."
- "Good things will come my way."
- "Courage is something I'll need now because it's been a hell of a day I've spent fading away, but we all fade sometimes, I believe."
- "You're too young to be this empty girl."
- "I don't wanna be lost like this anymore."
- "I don’t recall a single care,
just greenery and humid air."
- "'Cause as fucked as this place got, it made me, me."
- "I took a trip down south, I felt the sun on my face and it made things okay for a second. I drew a picture of my problems when I was going insane, and I focused on the currents."
- "San Francisco sounds quite lovely."
- "Out where the stones stand up like thrones beside the ocean, out where the waves make a grave of the sea. The lovers struggled in the middle of the tempest and water angrily crawled up onto the beach. Said, 'hold my hand and stay with me, we'll be released,' but the tide clung like an anchor to her feet and though he tried to make the water line recede, it pulled her out into the sea. He could not break apart the waves to bring her safely back in. He watched her hand break through the surface once, then disappear again. 'Forever wait inside the sea for me, my dear, I hear you. You speak in every curling wave and sing in every violent breeze. Someday not far away from here, my dear, I swear I'll see you and we will hear the seraphs cry, for they will still envy you and I.'"
- "You'd break your neck to keep your chin up."
- "You are beautiful, but you don't mean a thing to me."
- "If you feel that you're needing to cry, run to these arms, they won't ask you 'why'."
- "You're the ember to my flame when it gets dark."
- "I felt alive for the first time in years the night I destroyed what was keeping me here."
- "I'll make the most of all the sadness, you'll be a bitch because you can. You try to hit me just to hurt me so you leave me feeling dirty because you can't understand."
aug 21 2012 ∞
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