through scarlet fields

“I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren’t good for you.”

I'm way too nostalgic, it feels like I've lost something somewhere and sometime, who knows where or when.

“My crime was feeling everything too deeply, my punishment was surviving it.”

“Nella mia testa non è mai finita. Siamo ancora lì che ci guardiamo, per sempre.”

There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.

“Non certo la necessità, bensì il caso è pieno di magia. Se l’amore deve essere indimenticabile, fin dal primo istante devono posarsi su di esso le coincidenze, [...]”.

“Why can’t healing happen as quickly as wounding? You twist an ankle, break a bone — you can be hurt in a heartbeat. Hour by hour, week by week, year by year, the cells in your body labor to remake themselves the way they were the instant before your injury. But even then you’re never the same: not quite.”

“I had no intention of running after him. It was as though he had already gone somewhere far away, and I could run and run but I would never catch him.”

“One of the hardest things in life is letting go of what you thought was real.”