I-Skante

“Don’t ever fall in love with someone that cannot be yours. I promise you, it’s better that way. Because if you do, it’ll consume you, devour you to the point where you can’t breathe. It’s heartbreaking, knowing that person will never belong to you. But what hurts the most is… Watching them love someone else that isn’t you.”

We can’t all be happy, we can’t all be rich, we can’t all be lucky – and it would be so much less fun if we were. There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn’t enough space in my mind to put all those pieces together, to find words to summarize the whole of it. But the ‘keep going’ part, I knew the words for. ‘Find another reason to go on,’ I said. ‘It doesn’t have to be a good one, or a noble one. It just has to be a reason.’

Politeness has become so rare that people mistake it for flirtation.