𝒞𝒞𝒫

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

“I think you’re pushed from inside. Something tugs, pushes you hard.”

“Things are constantly falling apart.”

“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”

“I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.”

“—What’s tragedy to you is an anecdote to everybody else. We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.”