shit .

“Love didn’t hurt you. Someone who doesn’t know how to love you hurt you. Don’t confuse the two.”

“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.”

“‘I’ll be here,’ I said. I shuddered, perhaps from a draft. 'I know,’ he said. And he left.”

“I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”

I'm so sick of being taken for granted. It makes me feel so much more useless and needless

“But endurance had always been my virtue and I kept on.”

« Our inner world grows through the discovery of analogs in the world outside. Words convey little when like infants, we use them merely as pointers. To communicate feelings and ideas — in short, to express ourselves — we use linguistic analogs, metaphors.

“You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture.”