Curiously Icarus

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”

“I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.”

“You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept.”

“And you’ll return to real life. You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living. I guarantee it.”

“I wonder how much of what weighs me down is not mine to carry.”

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”

“It’s March. I open the window and spring floats in, kisses me on the nose. I have waited so long- and now the Sun is washing the world in yellow, and now the seeds sprout green in the dirt, and now the trees are budding and ready to bloom- and it was all so worth it”

“Do you ever find yourself nostalgic for the life you never got to have?”

never forgetting how hard middle school me cried during this scene

I never gave up on you even when you gave up on me.

“Is this how it goes? You fall in love, and nothing seems truly scary anymore, and life is one big possibility?”

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

“Hey,” he said, half asleep, “ what were you before you met me?”