- Depression is a side effect of dying.
- God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- "Oh, I'm grand, I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up, my friend."
- I fear oblivion, I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
- There will come a time when all of us are dead. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it's millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was a time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be a time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.
- was the only person to (a) understand what it's like to be dying and (b) not have died.
- Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.
- I'm trying to observe young love in its many-splendored awkwardness.
- But of course, there's always a harmartia.
- They don't kill you unless you light them. And I've never lit one. It's a metaphor, see; you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
- You choose your behaviours based on their metaphorical resonances.
- This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.
- Everything. From, like, hideous romance to pretentious fiction to poetry. Whatever.
- Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books which you can't tell other people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
- it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.
- That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.
- It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
- I fear your faith has been misplace- but then, faith usually is.
- WHAT? WHAT IS LIFE?
- But the truth is that I had never wanted him to kiss me, not in the way you are supposed to want these things. I mean, he was gorgeous. I was attracted to him. I thought about him in that way. But the actual touch, the realised touch... it's all wrong.
- I'm like. Like. I'm like a grenade. I'm a grenade and at some point, I'm gonna blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?
- I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you; you're too invested so please just let me do that, okay? I'm not depressed, I don't need to go out more. And I can't be a regular teenage because I'm a grenade.
- Hi, so okay, I don't know if you'll understand this but I can't kiss you or anything. Not that you'd necessarily want to, but I can't. When I try to look at you like that, all I see is what I'm going to put you through. Maybe that doesn't make sense to you. Anyway, sorry.
- This is just a thing. It's a thing we can live with.
- there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
- What a slut time is. She screws everyone.
- Most of the time, I could forget about it but the inexorable truth is this; they might be glad to have me around but I was the alpha and omega of their suffering.
- You are so busy being you that you have no idea how unprecedented you are.
- I fell in love the way you sleep: slowly, and then all at once.
- The pain was always there pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt.
- They just piss me off sometimes. And I don't want to be pissed off today.
- Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we are disorganised mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.
- I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the voice, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all out labour has been returned to dust, and I know that the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I'm in love with you.
- Yes, absolutely. Not like a heaven where you ride unicorns, play harps and live in a mansion made of clouds. But yes, I believe in Something with a capital S. Always have.
- The thing about dead people, the thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticise them.
- It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
- some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
- I wasn't angry, exactly, but I was very focused on getting the thing I had been promised.
- it's okay it's okay calm down it's okay oh, god, we're dying here.
- Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
- The tales of our exploits will survive for as long as the human voice itself.
- she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.
- I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way. The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment, I really liked my body.
- I kind of conned you into believing that you were falling in love with a healthy person.
- And it is my privilege and responsibility to ride all the way up with you.
- He specialised in the murder of dreams, let me tell you. You think volcanoes are awesome? Tell that to the ten thousand screaming corpses at Pompeii. You still secretly believe that there is an element of magic to this world? It's all just soulless molecules bouncing against each other randomly. Do you worry about who will take care of you if you parents die? As well you should, because they will be worm food in the fullness of time. / Ignorance is bliss.
- Nostalgia is a side effect of dying.
- I just want to be enough for you but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars, and you're not going be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt nazis. I mean, look at yourself.
- I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate just let me fucking die.
- he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked.
- Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. I will not tell you our love story-- because like all real love stories-- it will die with us, as it should.
- You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I am grateful.
- It was unbearable. The whole thing. Every second worst than the last.
- The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
- You know how I know you're a fighter? You called a ten a nine.
- I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back to the sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.
- You get all these friends just when you don't need friends anymore.
- Without pain, we couldn't know joy.
- I wish I would just die. Do you ever wish that you would just die?
- it was nice to spend time with someone so interesting. We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?
- He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn't your fairy-tale Prince Charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes, but I liked him best when that stuff fell away.
- I'm a shitty person but a good writer.
- She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you; you know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
feb 29 2012 ∞
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