#stef smith

I should have said that. That day. I should have said you were important to me. I’ve never been good at telling people they’re important. I’m very good at pushing people away. I’m good at being alone. But here I am, with you, telling you – you’re important to me. And it’s okay, I understand if you can’t… or won’t… or whatever. But I’m here, I’m not running away, I’m here.

"I’ve never doubted that we all wrestle with the chaos of deep, dark, hard things. We behave badly, drink too much, sleep too little, punch walls or pull our bodies apart. Rarely are we given the healthy tools that enable us to deal with this chaos. And yet, and yet, deal with it we do – we still get up the next day. And that’s one of the main things that Swallow looks at – the chaotic ways in which we continue. After all, it’s one of the things humanity does best. We continue or, at the very least, we try to."