XX

I know people come and go but it still hurts when they do.

the worst thing about love is i remember it.

I’m drowning in an ocean of thoughts.

The deeper the wound, the more private the pain.

I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

We often want it so badly that we ruin it before it begins. Overthinking. Fantasizing. Imagining. Expecting. Worrying. Doubting. Just let it naturally evolve.

Nothing lasts,” she says, and there’s a little crack in her voice. “You think it’s going to. You think, ‘Here’s something I can hold on to,’ but it always slips away.

I am still captain of my soul —

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.