cold war kid

“She’s letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you’re in big trouble.”

I may distance myself from you but that does not mean I think of you any less;

I exist as half of you

“I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she’s never been told about.”

“There are so many ways to live and die, so many ways to tell that same story, over and over, but everyone keeps trying to find a better way to tell it, a more real way to look into someone else’s face to say, ‘I am alive like you, was born without my consent like you, will someday die and be dead in the same way you’ll be dead’. What did we want from this? What did we really want from it?”