Thoughts-n-Quotes

“Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.”

“Death is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.”

“Never throw away a single second. And never forget about the people who love you. There is tremendous value in that.”

“The details of death are the fabric nightmares are sewn from.”

“Love, I thought, was the biggest fraud of all. Sleight of hand, designed to hold you, cage you, when flight suited you well.”

“Other people have always seen me as strong. That was a lie. A charade. A disguise I wore to keep me safe in public.”

“If you will only look past my clumsy attempts at love, sound the depths of my emotion in my heart, what haven you might find in the soft surf of my harbor.”

“I don’t get why he loves me, but even if I did, I wouldn’t let myself love him back because love is like summer. It only lasts so long.”

“Some people say love is fire—flame fanned into inferno. A raging that all too predictably burns through the years, fades into smoldering, burns down to ash, soot that cannot be rekindled.”

“Sick to your stomach—gas churning in an empty well. That’s how it feels with her gone.”

“I’m not a savior. And even he, who so many believe was the Savior, was strung up to die. Maybe it’s time to save myself.”

“Fighting depression is hard when you have no reason to fight it. Why pretend everything is fine when everything pretty much sucks?”

“It’s name is paranoia, and it spreads like an oil spill, there in the shadows, chokes your humanity. Threatens your soul.”

“Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.”

“Is this always what happens when someone you love leaves? They fade away, blur into memory like childhood fantasies?”

“No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. No one teaches you how to say good-bye.”