Words Between Stories

You should consider yourself lucky for finding something you love in life. A lot of people never find it.

"So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time."

"Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride."

"Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing."

"All adults have days when we feel completely drained. When we no longer know quite what we spend so much time fighting for, when reality and everyday worries overwhelm us and we wonder how much longer we’re going to be able to carry on. The wonderful thing is that we can all live through far more days like that without breaking than we think. The terrible thing is that we never know exactly how many."

Sometimes we do things for people we love, even though we wouldn’t choose to do those things for ourselves.

"Maybe it doesn’t matter whether something is a coincidence or a sign. Maybe the best way to cope with the loss of the people we love is to find them in as many places and things as we possibly can. And in the off chance that the people we lose are still somehow able to hear us, maybe we should never stop talking to them."

It proves that time, distance, and devastation allow people enough opportunity to craft villains out of people they don’t even know.

"It is what it is. A fucked-up situation, with no evil people to blame. We’re all just a bunch of sad people doing what we have to do to make it until tomorrow. Some of us sadder than others. Some of us more willing to forgive than others.

"It’s strange, being involved in every facet of another human being, and then suddenly not knowing anything."

"People say you fall in love, but fall is such a sad word when you think about it. Falls are never good. You fall on the ground, you fall behind, you fall to your death.

"I take a drink of my coffee and close my eyes and cry because life can be so fucking cruel and hard, and I’ve wanted to quit living it so many times, but then moments like these remind me that happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going."

"I’ve seen too much to believe someone’s zip code solely defines their likelihood of becoming a criminal. Evil can just as likely wear a suit and Rolex as it can dirty jeans and a wifebeater. The black ooze of maliciousness is present in all walks of life. From pimps sampling the wares of the girls they pump full of drugs and turn out to be pumped full of cum, to people with inflated egos and fat wallets buying their innocence one jury at a time."

You can only survive so many knife wounds before you simply… bleed out.

"My inner world has always been louder than anything I could say on the outside. When I don’t get enough time to focus on my imagination, everything in reality seems too much. Like my make-believe characters need tending to or else my internal garden wilts and I alongside it. "

"Some people enjoy flaunting their depravity, talking loudly about the underside of humanity. I saw it in the forums, too. I think, though, the most twisted among us speak in whispers."